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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.

Bill Ackman

Investing is one of the few things you can learn on your own.
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Investment Learning Yourself
Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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Goodness Investment Record Track
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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Believe Earth End Evidence Myself Right
You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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Business Inspirational Life People Surround Yourself
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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Business Evidence Investment Right Time Yourself
What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
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Drive Motivational Myself People Success
I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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Accomplishment Myself Optimism People
In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
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Inspirational Order Rejection Success Yourself
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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Decision Emotional Fact Investment Myself Purity
Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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Death Existence Fight Home Myself Win
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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Balance Business Confidence Humble Investment Mistake Yourself
I’m a very straightforward person. I say precisely what I think. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way.
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Myself People Person Thinking Wrong
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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Believe Marketing People Right Short
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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Live Love Money Myself Need Work
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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Competition Investment Love Money Myself Nature Person Work
I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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Creation Destroy Economics Equity Goodness Myself Private Value

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