I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMANWe invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.
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We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
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If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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In the investing business you need a – a high degree of confidence but you also need a high degree of humbleness and you have to balance those two… Humbleness comes from mistakes.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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