Bill Ackman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.”