Bill Ackman Quotes

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

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

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.

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Anyone here own 4 suits? Three suits? Even 2 suits? Well J. P. Morgan has over 100 suits, each one stolen off the back of a working man.

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

The bastards broke the People's back with their usury.... Let them die; the People will survive.

Immense sums were filched from the poor and ignorant.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.