Bill Ackman Quotes

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

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

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

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

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.

You can learn investing by reading books.

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.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

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

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

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.

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

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

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