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


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

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



In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.



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

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



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'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.



Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.



You can learn investing by reading books.

You can learn investing by reading books.



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.

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.



I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.



Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.



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 think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.





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In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.



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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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