Proven Quotes by Bill Ackman

As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any…

— Bill Ackman

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…

— Bill Ackman

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…

— Bill Ackman

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making -…

— Bill Ackman

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

— Bill Ackman

You can learn investing by reading books.

— Bill Ackman

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan -…

— Bill Ackman

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…

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman

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

— Bill Ackman