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" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "

T. Boone Pickens

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

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" 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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" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "

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" I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I've got an opinion on everything. "

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

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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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" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "

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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 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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" 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 is no free market for oil. "

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" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "

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

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

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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'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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" Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. "

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