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" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
T. Boone Pickens
Had
Problem
Life
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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Long
Time
Problem
" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "
T. Boone Pickens
Scale
Ambition
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Try
Mistake
Place
" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
T. Boone Pickens
Everything
Oil
Keep
" I never did anything dishonest. "
T. Boone Pickens
Anything
Never
Dishonest
" I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. "
T. Boone Pickens
You
American
Anything
" In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us. "
T. Boone Pickens
Plan
Energy
America
" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
T. Boone Pickens
Want
You
Compete
" I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
T. Boone Pickens
Failure
Look
New
" It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. "
T. Boone Pickens
New
Ground
Look
" 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
Price
Oil
Think
" Fundamentals make the market. "
T. Boone Pickens
Market
Fundamentals
Make
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Cheap
Best
Will
" I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "
T. Boone Pickens
Work
Sleep
Say
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
See
You
Voice
" You give the money where you want it. "
T. Boone Pickens
Money
You
Where
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Transportation
Environmental
Better
" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
T. Boone Pickens
Environmental
Gas
World
" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
T. Boone Pickens
More
Patience
Than
" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
T. Boone Pickens
Important
New
Look
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Believe
You
Oil
" As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. "
T. Boone Pickens
Space
Long
Energy
" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
T. Boone Pickens
Myself
Trying
Large
" I don't need any more money. "
T. Boone Pickens
Any
Need
More
" I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. "
T. Boone Pickens
Price
Believe
Control
" Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. "
T. Boone Pickens
Four
Far
Become
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Better
Transportation
America
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
You
Time
Think
" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
T. Boone Pickens
Over
Years
My Life
" Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. "
T. Boone Pickens
Myself
Computer
Market