What motivates people to succeed? Sex. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s the primal driver.
BILL ACKMANI’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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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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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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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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I’ve seen very few people in the world accomplish anything unless they were optimists.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Ultimately, investors are – are only as good as their track records.
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You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.
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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 am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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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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Let me win? That doesn’t exist in my house. No one lets anyone win. Fight to the death.
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I want to have one of the great investment records of all time.
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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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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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