T. Boone Pickens Quotes
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.
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.
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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.
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.
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.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
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.
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.
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.
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
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.
I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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.
Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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.
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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.
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
