American - Businessman | May 11, 1966 -
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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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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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
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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.
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I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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