Bill Ackman quotes

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)
I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think. View quote
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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. View quote
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was a little bit of a cocky kid. View quote
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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. View quote
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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. (Bill Ackman)

Bill Ackman

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Photo: Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: May 11, 1966
Quotes count: 11

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