I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational...
BILL ACKMAN If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I s...
BILL ACKMAN I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at l...
BILL ACKMAN If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife ha...
BILL ACKMAN Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree i...
BILL ACKMAN We'll do something as quickly as we can. It's not a matter of months; it's a matter of weeks I would...
BILL ACKMAN Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are prove...
BILL ACKMAN Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
BILL ACKMAN It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of lo...
BILL ACKMAN They're under investigation for precisely the issues we raised about them.
BILL ACKMAN We are applauding the plan for adopting key strategic initiatives that will create a lot of sharehol...
BILL ACKMAN We think it is a great plan and we're very supportive of the company and management and look forward...
BILL ACKMAN We need to deliver a revised proposal that meets their objections.
BILL ACKMAN Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing sys...
BILL ACKMAN The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
BILL ACKMAN I was a little bit of a cocky kid.
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....
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 wan...
BILL ACKMAN I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it ...
BILL ACKMAN I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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 Twenty-seven percent of the McDonald's system is operated by the parent company. If we can make that...
WILLIAM ACKMAN We got pretty much everything we wanted except for the spin-off.
WILLIAM ACKMAN I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have fromÂ...
WILLIAM ACKMAN I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.
WILLIAM ACKMAN We're getting pretty much everything we asked for.
WILLIAM ACKMAN We think resources are not allocated efficiently today because this business is not independent. The...
WILLIAM ACKMAN Sometimes when you mix a fabulous business with a more mundane one, the market values it as a more m...
WILLIAM ACKMAN We want to unlock significant shareholder value. What we're trying to do is help the company reconfi...
WILLIAM ACKMAN I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll...
WILLIAM ACKMAN Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSON I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and tur...
BILL WATTERSON Enemy fighters at two o'clock!Roger. What should I do until then?
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Black holes are where God divided by zero.
BILL WATTERSON The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried ...
BILL WATTERSON I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.
BILL HADER We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
BILL EVANS After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detec...
BILL DEDMAN There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in m...
BILL DEDMAN In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife...
BILL KREUTZMANN The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all th...
BILL WATTERSON I have an addiction to caffeine.
BILL AYERS Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos...
BILL GATES Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, ...
BILL BUFORD Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to ge...
BILL MURRAY Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'...
BILL RANCIC A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bus...
BILL DEDMAN You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterfli...
BILL GROSS Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Me...
BILL DEDMAN The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody...
BILL SIMMONS Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For w...
BILL MAHER Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name her...
BILL DEDMAN Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway....
BILL COSBY Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is hea...
BILL OWENS Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect t...
BILL SHUSTER I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you c...
BILL PARCELLS Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit...
BILL BUFORD You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the con...
BILL GATES Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
BILL MONROE If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.
BILL ENGVALL I'm a blue collar guy.
BILL ENGVALL When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but ...
BILL ENGVALL A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his hea...
BILL ROBINSON