T. Boone Pickens Quotes

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T. Boone Pickens

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 22, 1928

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

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

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

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I never did anything dishonest.

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

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

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

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

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