23 Quotes by Bill Ackman

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.