“There aren't that many great businesses that meet all of our criteria that you can buy at a price that makes sense at any one moment in time. If we had to build a portfolio of 100 of these, you know, we'd have, you know, 85, 90 that were not as good as the top 10.”

Bill Ackman / Pershing Square · Equity Mates Investing Podcast · Bill Ackman on building the next Berkshire, AI & his next 10-bagger

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Focus portfolio on a concentrated set of high-certainty, durable businesses rather than diversifying beyond ~12 stocks

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