"If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things."

“I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.”

Source : "CNBC Exclusive: CNBC's Scott Wapner Interviews Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman from CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in NYC". "Closing Bell", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2014.

“Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?”

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

“When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.”

“The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.”

“If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.”

“I had my trousers on at all times.”

Source : Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.”