Bill Ackman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Bill Viola

#9. In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Cesar Chavez

#10. I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Brian Greene

#11. 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.

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#12. I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Cameron Mackintosh

#13. Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.

Brianna Brown

#15. Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

A. C. Bradley

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

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#17. We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.

Daniel Kahneman

#18. You can learn investing by reading books.

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

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#20. 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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#21. Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

Joe Biden

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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

#25. 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.

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#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.

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

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#28. You are a whole lot better today than yesterday.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

Radhanath Swami

#30. 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.

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

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

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