Ackman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

Temuera Morrison

#3. You can learn investing by reading books.

Bill Ackman

#4. 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.

Bill Ackman

#5. Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Bill Ackman

#6. I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

Kerry Greenwood

#7. I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

Anna Kendrick

#8. I am told not to let the tone of this narrative become too dark. A certain 400-pound muse will park his 150-pound ass on me by way of editorial comment, and there is always the threat of his urine-filled cat.

Dean Koontz

#9. Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

Bill Ackman

#11. I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

Bruce Boxleitner

#12. If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Bill Ackman

#13. My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist.

Alice Walker

#14. I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

Bill Ackman

#15. Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool's errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Bill Ackman

#16. I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Bill Ackman

#17. I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.

Meljean Brook

#18. If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

Bill Ackman

#19. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman

#20. In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'

Brian Posehn

#21. You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.

Alyson Ackman

#22. I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

Bill Ackman

#23. Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Bill Ackman

#24. 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

#25. Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Bill Ackman

#26. 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.

Bill Ackman

#27. If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Bill Ackman

#28. We rarely get what we imagine in this world.

Stephen King

#29. I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

Devon Bostick

#30. Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

David Lynch

#31. It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

Bill Ackman

#32. In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn't bother you at all.

Bill Ackman

#33. I always love using the girls behind the blocks to create even more energy. It's so much fun and so much energy to be with these girls, I love training with them and it's just so much fun to race next to them. I try to use that as much as I can.

Alyson Ackman

#34. Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

Charles Colson

#35. No" is a complete sentence.

Anne Lamott

#36. Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Bill Ackman

#37. The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

Bill Ackman