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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.

Bill Ackman

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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Inspirational Order Rejection Success Yourself
What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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Drive Motivational Myself People Success
I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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Accomplishment Myself Optimism People
What the market tells you in the short term is what a certain subset of people believe. That doesn’t mean they’re right.
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Believe Marketing People Right Short
Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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Investment Learning Yourself
I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do.
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Live Love Money Myself Need Work
What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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Better Love Myself Sports Tennis
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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Balance Business Confidence Humble Investment Mistake Yourself
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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Myself People Person Thinking Wrong
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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Decision Emotional Fact Investment Myself Purity
Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school. That’s how I knew that it was a good idea.
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Business Goodness Ideas Myself School Start Stupidity
The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store.
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Better Management Sales Secret Sold Store
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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Believe Earth End Evidence Myself Right
Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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Death Existence Fight Home Myself Win
You can learn investing by reading books.
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Book Business Investment Learning Reading Yourself
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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Company Creation Goodness Investment Management Value

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