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Bill Ackman Quotes

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