You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
BILL ACKMANI am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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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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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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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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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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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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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You can learn investing by reading books.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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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 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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