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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.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
— T. Boone Pickens
When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.
— T. Boone Pickens
I've been married over 50 years of my life.
— T. Boone Pickens
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
— T. Boone Pickens
I never did anything dishonest.
— T. Boone Pickens
I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night
— T. Boone Pickens
The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
— T. Boone Pickens
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
— T. Boone Pickens
A plan without action isn't a plan, it's a speech.
— T. Boone Pickens
I've got an opinion on everything.
— T. Boone Pickens
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
— T. Boone Pickens
The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
— T. Boone Pickens
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
— T. Boone Pickens
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
— T. Boone Pickens
If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
— T. Boone Pickens
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
— T. Boone Pickens
I don't need any more money.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
Fundamentals make the market.
— T. Boone Pickens
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
— T. Boone Pickens
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
— T. Boone Pickens
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
— T. Boone Pickens
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
— T. Boone Pickens
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
— T. Boone Pickens
Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
— T. Boone Pickens
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.
— T. Boone Pickens
A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
— T. Boone Pickens
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
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.
— T. Boone Pickens
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
— T. Boone Pickens
Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
— T. Boone Pickens
There is no free market for oil.
— T. Boone Pickens
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
— T. Boone Pickens
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
— T. Boone Pickens
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
— T. Boone Pickens
Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
— T. Boone Pickens
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
— T. Boone Pickens
You give the money where you want it.
— T. Boone Pickens
As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
— T. Boone Pickens
