T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.
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I don’t think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it’s going to be $700 Million. It’s going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years.
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If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.
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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded – like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
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I don't need any more money.
