If you think of
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. Bill Ackman
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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. Bill Ackman
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. Bill Ackman
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. Bill Ackman
I was a little bit of a cocky kid. 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
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
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
As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven’t done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what’s going on at any one of those companies at this moment? Bill Ackman
You can learn investing by reading books. Bill Ackman
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. Bill Ackman