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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
Look
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You
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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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Gas
World
" 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 never did anything dishonest. "
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Never
Dishonest
" You give the money where you want it. "
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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 say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "
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Sleep
Say
" 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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" 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
" 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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Street
Up
Down
" 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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Believe
You
Oil
" 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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New
Ground
Look
" Fundamentals make the market. "
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Fundamentals
Make
" 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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Better
Transportation
America
" As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. "
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Long
Energy
" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
T. Boone Pickens
Use
Refinery
You
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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Try
Mistake
Place
" 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'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things. "
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Talking
Energy
Know
" 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. "
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You
Time
Think
" 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
" 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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Four
Far
Become
" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
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Over
Years
My Life
" 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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Cheap
Best
Will
" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
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Myself
Trying
Large