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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
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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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" 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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" 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 care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. "
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" It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. "
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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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" 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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" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
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" I never did anything dishonest. "
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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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" 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 do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises. "
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" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
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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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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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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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" 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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" 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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