Carl Icahn Quotes
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
Nat Turner
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
Barry Sternlicht
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Oscar Wilde
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If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.
Max Stirner
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
Carl Sagan
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
