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.
BILL ACKMANWe invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
More Bill Ackman Quotes
-
-
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.
BILL ACKMAN -
We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
BILL ACKMAN -
Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
BILL ACKMAN -
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
BILL ACKMAN -
What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.
BILL ACKMAN -
You can learn investing by reading books.
BILL ACKMAN -
I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
BILL ACKMAN -
If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
BILL ACKMAN -
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
BILL ACKMAN -
What the market tells you in the short term is what a certain subset of people believe. That doesn’t mean they’re right.
BILL ACKMAN -
I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
BILL ACKMAN -
In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
BILL ACKMAN -
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.
BILL ACKMAN -
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
BILL ACKMAN -
I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
BILL ACKMAN