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" I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "
T. Boone Pickens
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" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "
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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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" There is no free market for oil. "
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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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" 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 never did anything dishonest. "
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Never
Dishonest
" 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 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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" 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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" 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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Power
" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
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Gas
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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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You
American
Anything
" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
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Want
You
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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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Us
Up
" 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 think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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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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Republican
Family
Want
" 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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Pull
Trigger
Hunt
" 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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Transportation
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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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Price
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Control
" 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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Plan
Energy
America
" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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You
Try
" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
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Life
" Fundamentals make the market. "
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Fundamentals
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" I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
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New
" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
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" 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. "
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