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Bill Ackman Quotes

"Buy and hold good companies that you understand deeply where the fundamental value is significantly greater than the price today.""I think the most important discipline I learned from poker was the method of decision making.""You should find businesses where putting the capital to work in the business generates a high return on capital.""Shorting is not a great business, its a great hobby.""Stock prices are driven more by investor emotions than by fundamentals in the short term""We choose what we believe to be the very best opportunities and focus on them""Our approach is to be detail-oriented and to dig deep""The best way to invest is with a long-term perspective""Experience is making mistakes and learning from them""Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right""You have to follow your convictions because if you don’t follow your convictions, you are an insincere leader and everything falls apart""I’m just looking to earn a fair return on capital, commensurate with the amount of risk we’ve taken and the opportunity we’ve helped create"