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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Pull
Trigger
Hunt
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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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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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Time
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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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Up
Down
" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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More
Patience
Than
" I've got an opinion on everything. "
T. Boone Pickens
Opinion
Got
Everything
" 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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Transportation
Environmental
Better
" 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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Look
Market
You
" Fundamentals make the market. "
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Market
Fundamentals
Make
" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
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Everything
Oil
Keep
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Talking
Energy
Know
" I don't need any more money. "
T. Boone Pickens
Any
Need
More
" 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
" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
T. Boone Pickens
Environmental
Gas
World
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Republican
Family
Want
" 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 fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
T. Boone Pickens
Had
Problem
Life
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Good
Important
Power
" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
T. Boone Pickens
Myself
Trying
Large
" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
T. Boone Pickens
Use
Refinery
You
" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
T. Boone Pickens
Want
You
Compete
" 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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Average
Feeling
Africa
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" There is no free market for oil. "
T. Boone Pickens
Oil
Market
Free Market
" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
T. Boone Pickens
Over
Years
My Life