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Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
Julian Robertson / Manager
Accounting
More
Me Anything More
Anything
Me
Course
Helped
More Than Anything
Than
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I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.
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Ifs
Investing
Would Be
Africa
Younger
Suppose
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Anybody that doesn't like Netflix, that's like saying you hate Santa Claus.
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Santa
Santa Claus
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I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don't know the particular thing with Twitter.
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Long Lasting
Social Media
Social Media Media Know
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I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.
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Terrific
Views
Political Views
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I think I'm going to refrain from criticizing Apple too much. I mean, that's been a pretty great company.
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Refrain
Apple
Criticizing
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Digital Globe is, I think, a really great company. And it's had its virtual monopoly in the area where it is.
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Digital
Monopoly
Virtual
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I have always regrets about selling anything of Reed Hastings because he's really a good manager and a great capitalist.
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Capitalist
Good Manager
Selling
Good Great Always
Reed
Manager
Regrets
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I'm not sure whether Jeff Bezos is the greatest thing in the world coming along or if he may be the emperor with no clothes.
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Emperor
Greatest Thing
Jeff
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Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.
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Funds
Hedge
Tougher
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We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.
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License
Nowadays
Steal
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It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge funds to compete with.
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Fund
Compete
Hedge
In My Opinion
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My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.
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What You Love
Colleges
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When I got out of the Navy... all those hotshots, the guys that were really smart and attractive and all that, guess where they were going? They were going into advertising. That was the hot thing then.
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Advertising
Attractive
Navy
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The man I respect the most in the business - and he's in the hedge fund business - is probably Stan Druckenmiller. He's just so smart and so good and so up on everything. I think he's fantastic investor.
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Fantastic
Fund
Smart
Business Good Respect
Hedge
Investor
Stan
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I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think that Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term. I just don't believe bad guys do well in the long run.
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Bad Guys
Conclusion
Unlikely
Long Run
Steve
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In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
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Batting
Fund
Hedge
Home Runs
Runs
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It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.
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Adjusting
Helping
Inheritance
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Our mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them, and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them. If the 200 best don't do better than the 200 worst, you should probably be in another business.
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Should
World
Worst
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I think, definitely, this country needs a lower corporate tax rate and tax reform so that we can get our profits that we've made overseas back into the country without heavy penalties. And if that happens, I think that would be very good for the market and all of that.
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Corporate
Heavy
Penalties
Rate
Profits
Tax Rate
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I've got less respect for our politicians, for instance, who are not worried or apparently don't even consider the fact that Apple and a lot of the other good technology companies are going to create an automatic car. Think of the jobs that's going to cause to be gone.
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Worried
Apparently
Automatic
Technology Companies
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I think the cruise industry has come of age. And older people my age are attracted to the cruise ship industry. And they are booming right now, and all over the world they are booming. And I think they're for the golden oldies, and there are more and more of them around.
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Cruise
Golden
Older People
Oldies
Age World People
Booming
More And More
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I don't see any particular sweet spot. But I do see sweet stocks that I really love and like and think are going to do well. And one is a company that probably makes that beautiful toenail polish you've got on. A company called Ulta. And it has just beautiful beauty salons all over the country.
Julian Robertson / Manager
Polish
Beauty Love Beautiful
Spot
Stocks
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