Carl Icahn Quotations

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

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.

I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly.

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.