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Aubrey McClendon [1959-0] American

Rank: 103
Businessman, Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Energy

Aubrey Kerr McClendon was an American businessman and the founder and chief executive officer of American Energy Partners, LP. He was also the co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Chesapeake Energy.

Best, Business, Dreams, Success

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I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.	Success	101
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.	Best, Business	102
I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.	Dreams	103
American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?		104
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.		105
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.		106
I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.		107
Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.		108
I think most people act in their self-interest.		109
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.		110
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.		111
Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.		112

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