Bill Ackman
Person on 4 sites
Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm; earlier co-founded Gotham Partners.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The value of anything is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life. (opens korrents.com)
“The value of anything, I would say, other than love, let's say, is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.”
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Most investments are really speculations, because only a handful of businesses can be predicted with any confidence. (opens korrents.com)
“And very few businesses that you can have a really high degree of certainty about. And as a result, many investments are speculations because it's really very difficult to predict the future.”
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A margin of safety means paying a discount deep enough that being wrong about what a company is worth still leaves you whole. (opens korrents.com)
“You want to buy a company at a price that if you're wrong about what you think it's worth and it turns out to be worth 30% less, you paid a deep enough discount to your estimate that you're still okay. A big part of…”
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The value of anything is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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America's Cultural Revolution (opens rcmnd.app)
“A friend of mine sent me Christopher Rufo’s book, America’s Cultural Revolution, which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory. I found it actually one of the more…”
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Buffett Partnership Letters (opens rcmnd.app)
“And then I eventually got the Buffett partnership letters that you could see, which are an amazing read to go back to the mid 1950s and read what he wrote to his limited partners when he first started out and just…”
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America's Cultural Revolution (opens rcmnd.app)