T. Boone Pickens Quotes
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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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You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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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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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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I never did anything dishonest.
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If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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There is no free market for oil.
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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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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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I don't need any more money.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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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 don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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You give the money where you want it.