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T. Boone Pickens [1928-0] American

Rank: 101
Businessman, Business magnate

Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr., known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November, 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.

Environmental, Failure, Leadership, Patience

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.		101
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.		102
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.	Patience	103
The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.	Environmental	104
Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.		105
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.		106
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.		107
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.		108
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.		109
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.	Environmental	110
There is no free market for oil.		111
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.		112
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.		113
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.	Leadership	114
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.		115
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.		116
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.		117
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.		118
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.		119
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.		120
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.	Failure	121
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.	Failure	122
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.		123
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.		124
Fundamentals make the market.		125
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.		126
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.		201
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.		202
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.		203
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.		204
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.		205
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.		206
You give the money where you want it.		207
I don't need any more money.		208
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.		209
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.		210
I've got an opinion on everything.		211
As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.		212
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.		213
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.		214
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.		215
Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.		216
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.		217
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.		218
I never did anything dishonest.		219
I've been married over 50 years of my life.		220
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.		221
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.		222

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