Ackman Hedge Quotes

#1. Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Alfred Korzybski

#2. I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.

Bill Ackman

#3. The smith and his penny both are black.

George Herbert

#4. I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

Izabella Scorupco

#5. If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. (Remember: There's no such thing as a mistake in the kitchen, just a new recipe waiting to be discovered!)

Steven Raichlen

#7. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

#8. Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school,' says Ackman of the idea. 'That's how I knew that it was a good idea.

Maneet Ahuja

#9. Everyone wants to own the end of the world.

Don DeLillo

#10. Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

Huston Smith

#12. I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond.

T.C. Boyle

#13. Brokentail, I give you a life for compassion. Use it to shelter the weakest in your Clan, the kits and elders and the sick. Use it to show mercy to your enemies and to choose the path your paw steps will follow.

Erin Hunter

#14. Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Elgin Baylor

#15. The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Will.i.am

#16. If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

Rowan Atkinson