T. Boone Pickens Quotes
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If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
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I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
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When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
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A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
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The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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I've got an opinion on everything. Sure, you ought to do OCS, you ought to do renewables, you ought to do biofuels, you ought to do ethanol, all of them. Those are ours and we've got to get off the dependency on the foreign oil.
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There is no free market for oil.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.
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