Bill Ackman Quotes

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. ~ 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

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

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

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America. ~ 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

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

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

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy. ~ 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

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

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. ~ 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 do well for. I'm a competitive person. ~ Bill Ackman

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

To me pornography is ... spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons. ~ Bill Hicks

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
-Calvin ~ Bill Watterson

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. ~ Bill Johnson

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king. ~ Bill Johnson

America loves to watch people growing and getting better. ~ Bill Engvall

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody. ~ Bill Haley

I ... am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light ... in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required. ~ Bill Hicks

When faced with everything sometimes the best course of action is nothing. ~ Bill Callahan

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made. ~ Bill Maris

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in. ~ Bill Buxton

I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont. ~ Dave Barry

There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we're going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those effects all around us. ~ Bill McKibben

Calamity was ordained for man. ~ Bill Vaughan

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue. ~ Ray Comfort

As Bill Bryson wrote during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney: 'A lot of people don't like fencing because they don't understand the rules and terminology, but in fact it's quite simple. There are basically four thrusts, known as the cartilage, the chaise lounge, the aubergine, and the fromage anglais, and these in turn can be parried by four defensive feints – the pastiche, the penchant, the demi-tass...e, and the saumon en croute. Scoring is one point for a petit pois and two for a baguette. Points can equally be deducted for a foot fault or pied a terre, or for a type of illegal lunge known as a zut alors. ~ Richard Cohen

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby. ~ Robin Thicke

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

And on the other long side, completely alone, sat Becca's father.
The Guide.
"Call me Bill," he'd said.
Yeah, Gabriel had a few ideas of what to call him. ~ Brigid Kemmerer

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. ~ Bill Belichick

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. ~ Bill Walton

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally. ~ Bill Bryson

And again the news offered no news: On CNN, a rerun of Larry King interviewing the widowed and the suffering. On CNN2, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a fatherless son. On CNN3, a rerun of Flight 11 flying toward the first tower, in slow motion. On CNN4, a rerun of the tower collapsing, in slow motion, and again the towers fell, again people jumped and died. On CNN5, a rerun of Larry King interviewing a motherless daughter, a daughterless father, interviewing the motherless, fatherless, wifeless, husbandless, childless, shameless
disgusted, Bill pressed POWER and beheaded King, exiled CNN, and the world went dark. They sat relieved in the silence and dark. Not much road traffic now, but somewhere in the distant overhead the honk and flap of southbound geese, instinct bound, in vees for victory. The turkey was still on the table; the sides were still out. Let all who are hungry come and eat. Let all who are tired come home. ~ Pearl Abraham

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back ~ Bill Vaughan

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~ Bill Cosby

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party. ~ Bill Richardson

It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go "oh no, do it again, do it again" - all of those a requickly made decisions. The fact that you can see the images right away in a funny way makes the whole relationship more casual. I don't want a casual relationship with my subject. ~ Bill Henson

I think there is a problem, though, with the media gushing over [Obama] too much. I don't think he thinks that he's all that, but the media does. I mean, the coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him.It's embarrassing. ~ Bill Maher

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. ~ Bill Gates

Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you're vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it's tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people - especially introverts - have trouble. ~ Bill Konigsberg

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love. ~ Bill Cosby

One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved . ~ Bill Hybels

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education. ~ Bill Gates

Years later I saw McMahon in a St. Louis hotel lobby and explained the situation to him, but he shrugged it off as "No big thing, Bill." He was already a multi-millionaire and at this point, that show meant little him, if anything at all. ~ Bill Apter

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world. ~ Bill Gates

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts! ~ Bill Maher

As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The ~ Bill Bryson

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. ~ Bill Hicks

It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still. ~ Bill Bailey

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into. ~ Bill Crawford

The anointing to heal and bring deliverance will be of no value in Heaven. These graces must be used here and now as part of the package of tools used to bring the nations to Jesus. After all, He is called "the desire of the nations."Everyone desires Jesus. They just don't know it. We must become like Him more fully so that the harvest becomes all that God desires and has provided for. ~ Bill Johnson

The Clintons' geographic meandering is the stuff of political legend. Despite both Clintons being high-flyers in Arkansas, Bill Clinton failed to win the state in both of his presidential election wins in 1992 and 1996. Mrs. Clinton, not being born in, studied in, or lived in New York, was elected U.S. Senator from that state twice. ~ Donald Michaels

Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional ... transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey. ~ Bill Mallonee

It's more blessed to give than to receive
especially kittens. ~ Bill Cosby

We joke around a lot with our ballclub. ~ Bill Laimbeer

A gay lobbyist is a resident of San Francisco who equates Greek pederasty with consented male-on-male only pedophilia, invokes pederasty to justify his bizarre behavior, and then denies that pedophilia and homosexuality are synonyms. ~ Bill Gaede

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. ~ Bill Bryson