T. Boone Pickens Quotes

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T. Boone Pickens

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 22, 1928

You give the money where you want it.

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I don't need any more money.

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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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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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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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Fundamentals make the market.

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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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I've got an opinion on everything.

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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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There is no free market for oil.

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

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

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

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

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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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