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I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
Bill Ackman
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Book
Investing
Reading
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The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Analysis
Loss
Luck
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In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Assets
Real
World
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
Bill Ackman
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Ceo
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The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Investing
Poker
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
Bill Ackman
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Hedge Fund Manager
People
Prepared
Right Thing
Thinking
Always I Am People
Do The Right Thing
Regardless
The Right Thing
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What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Might
Pops
Uncertain
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As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Jobs
Figures
Should
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I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
Bill Ackman
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Hedge Fund Manager
Equity
Investors
Destroy
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There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Microsoft
Risk
Bet
Poker
Table
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Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Baseball
Brother
Team
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I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Admit
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Believe
Earth
Ends
Proven
Believe I Believe I Am
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What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Cutting
Half
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My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Dinner
Every Night
Nice People
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Order
Rejected
Successful
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We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Invent
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Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Investing
Poker
Stocks
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On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Combination
Fancy
Best Mom Dad
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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
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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
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Bedrock
Critical
Housing
Mortgage
Preserving
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Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Profit
Disrupt
Stream
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Behalf
Competitive Person
Investors
Love Work Money
Competitive
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You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Certain
Facts
Psychological
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Enron
Looks
Phantoms
Trading
Trading Floor
Time Great Look
Fictitious
Floor
Frauds
Phantom
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Earth
Important
Persistent
Person
Believe I Believe I Am
Extremely
Right
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When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Jobs
Names
Wife
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For one thing, Greenlight only hires nice people. By that, I don't mean that we avoid hiring jerks. I mean we actively look to hire people who are nice.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Hiring
Nice People
Actively
Hire
Jerks
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Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Advantage
Folding
Texas
Waiting
Hold
Hour
Press
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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
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Decision
Emotion
Emotional
Facts
Investing
Rational
Affect
Purely
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We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Relative
Portfolio
Constructing
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We try not to have many investing 'rules,' but there is one that has served us well: If we decide we were wrong about something, in terms of why we did it, we exit, period.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Exit
Investing
Served
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In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Buying
Debate
Investing
Selling
Stock
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A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Car
Doe
Risk
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My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Crisis
Grandfather
Jersey
New Jersey
Family Business Father
Suffered
Family Business
Paints
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I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Analysis
Critical
Debate
Grades
Logic
Organization
Training
Expense
Member
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Assessment
Errands
Needs
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Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Certain
Games
Incomplete
Information
Investing
Psychological
Looking
Set
Edge
Poker
Situations
Statistical
Whether
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Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Challenges
Microsoft
Needs
Obvious
Reducing
Traffic
Biggest Challenges
Facebook
Namely
Search
User
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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
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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 worked in investment banking for two years. I was in a program where they kind of just owned you. And you - I didn't realize that I've signed up for that, which was one of the problems. I didn't know anybody who'd done this.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Banking
Investment
Program
One Of The Problems
Owned
Signed
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After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Department
Economic
Thesis
Type
Undergraduate
Interested
Largely
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During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Football Team
Freshman
Freshman Year
Abundant
Dorm
Hour
Joined
Pointed
Upper
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In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Commitment
Creating
Dinner
Maintaining
Sacrifice
Consider
Symbol
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Obviously, I wasn't expecting Wall Street to be a laid-back place. I was prepared for hard work. Sadly, much of the work the new guys were asked to do and the insane hours we were expected to keep had little to do with making the bank more productive. It felt more like hazing.
David Einhorn
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Hedge Fund Manager
Expecting
Insane
Bank
Sadly
Wall Street
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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
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Hedge Fund Manager
Cost
Entrepreneurial
Investors
Management
Passive
Prepared
Propose
Strategy
Structure
Thinking
World
Change Good World
Capital
Least
System
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