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

T. Boone Pickens

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" You give the money where you want it. "

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

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

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" Fundamentals make the market. "

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

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" There is no free market for oil. "

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

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" I've got an opinion on everything. "

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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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" If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. "

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

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. "

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" I never did anything dishonest. "

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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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" 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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