I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
CARL ICAHN Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
CARL ICAHN My wife watches me like a hawk.
CARL ICAHN In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not re...
CARL ICAHN Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
CARL ICAHN I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
CARL ICAHN I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
CARL ICAHN When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
CARL ICAHN Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at p...
CARL ICAHN Doing this AOL deal is on the way, but not enough, to enhancing shareholder value at Time Warner, .....
CARL ICAHN We continue to believe that Time Warner's stock is greatly undervalued and that the company is in ne...
CARL ICAHN particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareh...
CARL ICAHN Time Warner management has offered several reasons for not completely separating the cable business ...
CARL ICAHN We're not about liquidating companies. But if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing u...
CARL ICAHN I think you would now agree that this would have achieved a far superior result for stockholders,
CARL ICAHN This conglomerate concept doesn't work, there is no synergy - just a bunch of people spending a larg...
CARL ICAHN In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, ... The first is to act precipitously without tho...
CARL ICAHN I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combina...
CARL ICAHN I have never called Dick Parsons a moron. I don't think Dick Parsons is a moron. Nothing could be fa...
CARL ICAHN We'd like to see the company put up for sale, ... VISX [management] is giving lip service to a sale.
CARL ICAHN If VISX agrees with me to submit to a vote of shareholders the best offer of $32 per share or higher...
CARL ICAHN provide a very low or no possibility of a successful recovery for the bonds.
CARL ICAHN We're happy that value for all shareholders is enhanced through this offer.
CARL ICAHN Last year, the company's board and management claimed to act in the interests of stockholders by spi...
CARL ICAHN Investors need to understand what level of debate actually occurred. Sunlight must be shed on the bo...
CARL ICAHN The registrants acquired the shares because they believe that the shares are undervalued in the mark...
CARL ICAHN is greatly undervalued and that the company is in need of a major restructuring.
CARL ICAHN are currently satisfied with the status quo, [I am] not satisfied with the status quo.
CARL ICAHN We sincerely hope that this important resolution has come in time to save Marvel and help restore it...
CARL ICAHN a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.
CARL ICAHN is pretty much a sure thing.
CARL ICAHN not comment on whether I still have an interest in General Motors or whether I will buy or sell its ...
CARL ICAHN I have never covered a single share,
CARL ICAHN You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog
CARL ICAHN While we did not want to resort to litigation, we felt that it was imperative that we stop Toy Biz's...
CARL ICAHN If we are able to conduct such a due diligence review, we believe that we may be in a position to ma...
CARL ICAHN By agreeing to implement the critical corporate reforms we have supported for several months, Dick P...
CARL ICAHN Their earnings are way down. It's time for management to go,
CARL ICAHN I think the company should be put up for sale now, ... is leaving the shareholders out on the brink ...
CARL ICAHN Certain companies have publicized my Hart Scott filings in the hope that this might induce investors...
CARL ICAHN If you just broke it up, the stock would be higher. In Time Warner, we're saying the conglomerate co...
CARL ICAHN There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation...
CARL SAGAN But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...
CARL SAGAN Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about ...
CARL SANDBURG I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ...
CARL SANDBURG In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to sav...
CARL SAGAN Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there&#...
CARL SAGAN A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
CARL REINER Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...
CARL JUNG The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
CARL JUNG The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL JUNG Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL JUNG Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL JUNG A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
CARL JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL JUNG Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
CARL JUNG In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
CARL JUNG A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
CARL JUNG Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL JUNG Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...
CARL JUNG Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
CARL JUNG The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most h...
CARL JUNG Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL JUNG If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...
CARL JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL JUNG Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...
CARL JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL JUNG Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
CARL JUNG Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
CARL JUNG Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
CARL JUNG A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
CARL JUNG Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
CARL JUNG It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL JUNG A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible dis...
CARL JUNG The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL JUNG The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a conte...
CARL BERNSTEIN Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGAN There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow i...
CARL SANDBURG I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ...
CARL SANDBURG I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
CARL SANDBURG The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workI am the grass; I ...
CARL SANDBURG Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why ...
CARL SANDBURG Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as...
CARL SANDBURG A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sens...
CARL SCHURZ Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you wi...
CARL SCHURZ The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easil...
CARL JUNG Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. Th...
CARL JUNG Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL JUNG Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their child...
CARL JUNG God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th...
CARL JUNG Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They h...
CARL JUNG Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who ...
CARL JUNG The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, o...
CARL JUNG The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
CARL JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL JUNG Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
CARL JUNG I do not believe...I know.
CARL JUNG Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you w...
CARL SCHURZ The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to...
CARL SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
CARL SCHURZ Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafarin...
CARL SCHURZ I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
CARL SANDBURG I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o...
CARL LEWIS Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are th...
CARL SANDBURG I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBERG If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected fi...
CARL SAGAN Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires int...
CARL SAGAN Imagine that I am riding a bicycle toward you. As I approach an intersection I nearly collide, so it...
CARL SAGAN A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science...
CARL SAGAN We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute...
CARL KARCHER Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...
CARL SAGAN Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ...
CARL SAGAN The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
CARL SAGAN The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...
CARL SAGAN Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...
CARL SAGAN The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
CARL SANDBURG Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remo...
CARL ORFF Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
CARL ROWAN The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
CARL SANDBURG A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called
CARL SAGAN I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn&#...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where t...
CARL WILSON Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than...
CARL WILSON In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
CARL WILSON I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Me...
CARL WILSON I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
CARL WILSON I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leade...
CARL WEATHERS When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's real...
CARL WEATHERS My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of ...
CARL WEATHERS I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywo...
CARL WEATHERS I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences w...
CARL WEATHERS What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation c...
CARL STOKES My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&...
CARL STOKES All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pul...
CARL SANDBURG I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
CARL SANDBURG I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
CARL SANDBURG Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
CARL SANDBURG Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
CARL SANDBURG A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak...
CARL SANDBURG I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of...
CARL SANDBURG To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
CARL SANDBURG Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than &#...
CARL SAFINA Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whethe...
CARL SAFINA When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy ...
CARL SAFINA As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph....
CARL SAFINA Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually ...
CARL SAFINA BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have ...
CARL SAFINA From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being ...
CARL SAFINA Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and...
CARL SAFINA If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&...
CARL SAFINA If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn'...
CARL SAFINA With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
CARL REINER I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
CARL REINER A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
CARL REINER The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
CARL REINER It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
CARL REINER At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I tho...
CARL RAKOSI Friends are not made, but recognized.
CARL RAKOSI