In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
BILL ACKMANI’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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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 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 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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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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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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’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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What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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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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You can learn investing by reading books.
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Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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