Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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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What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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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’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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I love what I do. I don’t do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I’m a competitive person.
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In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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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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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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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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