Carl Icahn Quotes

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

It's never been about making money.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.