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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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" 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. "

" It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. "

" 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. "

" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "

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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. "

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

" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "

" Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. "

" 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. "

" I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. "

" 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. "

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

" You give the money where you want it. "

" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fundamentals make the market. "

" 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. "

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

" I never did anything dishonest. "

" Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. "

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