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" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "

T. Boone Pickens

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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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" 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 always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

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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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" Fundamentals make the market. "

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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've got an opinion on everything. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" You give the money where you want it. "

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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 don't need any more money. "

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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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" 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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" There is no free market for oil. "

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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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" 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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" 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 fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "

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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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" We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us. "

T. Boone Pickens

" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "

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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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" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "

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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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" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "

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" I never did anything dishonest. "

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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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