Ackman Bill Quotes & Sayings

The heart will listen when the eyes are closed. The heart will hear when the mind is shut. The heart will move you when you feel you have nothing left. Stories talk to the heart. Our stories will rescue the heart of America. — Rob Kall

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

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

The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk. — Mark Helprin

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. — 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

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy. — 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 - just the facts. — Bill Ackman

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. — Bill Ackman

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

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

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there. — Rachel McAdams

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

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

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

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

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 of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment? — Bill Ackman

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice. — John Irving

I was a little bit of a cocky kid. — Bill Ackman

Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school,' says Ackman of the idea. 'That's how I knew that it was a good idea. — Maneet Ahuja

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine. — Lars Von Trier

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

My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be. — Michael Elliott

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

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think. — 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 - true story. — Bill Ackman

You can learn investing by reading books. — Bill Ackman