"Too often it's not the most creative guys……" — Carl Icahn
"Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys."
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29 Quotes by Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn has 29 quotes on this site.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
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With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten…
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We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
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We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the…
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We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories.…
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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second…
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Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make…
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I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just…
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.
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More Abrasive Quotes
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated,…
— Conrad Black
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go…
— Kristen Stewart
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The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time,
— Stella McCartney
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive,…
— Simon Mawer
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Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity…
— Isocrates
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There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though…
— John F. Kennedy
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The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
— Marshall McLuhan
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40…
— Isaac Asimov
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In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe.…
— Shalom Harlow
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