We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created.
BILL ACKMANYou should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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 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’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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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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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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I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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You can learn investing by reading books.
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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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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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