Carl Icahn

yo, MTV RAPS!

I would bet that the deeper you dig, the less he will seem genuine. He really doesn't seem to make companies any better, he just nags until stock prices rise and shorttrades.

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He's good for the economy.

Icahn has never created a single product, service or job. He is simply a very rich extortionist, doing what the mob does but on a much bigger scale. Except the mob risks jail.

BALLS

He make business look so simple ! its the simple thing in business world that moves companies !

Until laws are passed that limit a CEO's salary to a fixed multiple of what is being paid to the lowest employee or a fixed multiple of what is paid out in dividends, minor stockholders will continue to get screwed by the close-knit corporate boards who lavish salaries on their buddies without regard to actual results. It is the Ikahn's of the world who give a modicum of oversight to an otherwise corrupt system -- they force management to be productive and not merely seductive. No one should be pointing a finger at Ikahn for doing what he does. Ikahn is just doing that which they wish they as minor stockholders could. Each of them wishes they could say "I can."

Until laws are passed that limit a CEO's salary to a fixed multiple of what is being paid to the lowest employee or a fixed multiple of what is paid out in dividends, minor stockholders will continue to get screwed by the close-knit corporate boards who lavish salaries on their buddies without regard to actual results. It is the Ikahn's of the world who give a modicum of oversight to an otherwise corrupt system -- they force management to be productive and not merely seductive. No one should be pointing a finger at Ikahn for doing what he does. Ikahn is just doing that which they wish they as minor stockholders could. Each of them wishes they could say "I can."

What a brilliant and capable person! He's all work plus he bears no grudges towards the people he deals with. All he wants is traditional American efficiency. He must be the terror of corporate management who is lost in confounding paper work. A lot can be learned from this individual. No wonder he is successful!