Able Quote by Carl Icahn

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

— Henry Ford

I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think that is…

— Charlie Munger

You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at…

— Noam Chomsky

We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on…

— Ratan Tata

There's no question that protectionist or sort of moral suasion efforts like this can make a difference on a case-by-case basis. We have seen…

— Greg Ip

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if…

— William Eckhardt

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500…

— Jennifer Granholm

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

— Ken Hakuta

You can do too much and oversell your market.

— Roger Daltrey

If you look at a company like Qualcomm, we're a big exporter. We essentially have tremendous revenue offshore and large employment onshore. I think…

— Steve Mollenkopf

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money…

— Arthur Scargill

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke