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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Myself
Computer
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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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Problem
Life
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
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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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" As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. "
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Long
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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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New
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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 don't need any more money. "
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Any
Need
More
" 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
" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
T. Boone Pickens
Over
Years
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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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Look
New
" 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
" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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Support
You
Try
" Fundamentals make the market. "
T. Boone Pickens
Market
Fundamentals
Make
" 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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Average
Feeling
Africa
" If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. "
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You
Competitive
Get
" 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
" 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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See
You
Voice
" I never did anything dishonest. "
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Anything
Never
Dishonest
" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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More
Patience
Than
" 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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Long
Time
Problem
" 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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Mother
Analysis
Gift
" I've got an opinion on everything. "
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Opinion
Got
Everything
" 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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Price
Oil
Think
" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "
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Scale
Ambition
" 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