Quotes by Bill Ackman - Page 1

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Kids
Cocky
Little Bit
Littles
Little Bit Little Bit
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You can learn investing by reading books.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Book
Investing
Reading
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Experience
Learning
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Mistakes And Learning
Mistakes
Them
Making
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The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Ceo
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
People
Prepared
Right Thing
Thinking
Always I Am People
Do The Right Thing
Regardless
The Right Thing
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Equity
Investors
Destroy
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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.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Believe
Earth
Ends
Proven
Believe I Believe I Am
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In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Order
Rejected
Successful
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Business
Investing
Long
Looks
Proven
Silly
Time Where Long
Time Business Look
Time Business Where
Before
Period
Long Period
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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Opportunity
Fraud
Scams
University Degrees
Scam
Fictitious
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Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Bedrock
Critical
Housing
Mortgage
Preserving
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Behalf
Competitive Person
Investors
Love Work Money
Competitive
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Earth
Important
Persistent
Person
Believe I Believe I Am
Extremely
Right
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Enron
Looks
Phantoms
Trading
Trading Floor
Time Great Look
Fictitious
Floor
Frauds
Phantom
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Marketing
Sophistication
Thinking
True Story
Typical
Distributor
Plan
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Decision
Emotion
Emotional
Facts
Investing
Rational
Affect
Purely
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Assessment
Errands
Needs
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Believe
Certainty
Handful
Hispanic
Low Income
Population
Pyramid Schemes
Pyramids
Wealthy
Benefit
Scheme
Harming
Principally
Pyramid
Super
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Cost
Entrepreneurial
Investors
Management
Passive
Prepared
Propose
Strategy
Structure
Thinking
World
Change Good World
Capital
Least
System
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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 / Hedge Fund Manager
Good Thing
Worse
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As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?
Bill Ackman / Hedge Fund Manager
Cover Ups
Ignorance
Thinking
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