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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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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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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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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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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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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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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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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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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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