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" I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
T. Boone Pickens
Failure
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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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" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
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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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" 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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" Fundamentals make the market. "
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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 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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" 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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" I never did anything dishonest. "
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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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" 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 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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" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. "
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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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" I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. "
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" As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. "
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" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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