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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

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it. — 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

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. — 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

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

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us. — T. Boone Pickens