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