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" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
T. Boone Pickens
Myself
Trying
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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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" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
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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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" 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 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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" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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" I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "
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" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
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" Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. "
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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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" I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends. "
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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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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'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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" I don't need any more money. "
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" The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. "
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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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" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
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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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" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
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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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" I never did anything dishonest. "
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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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