T. Boone Pickens Quotes

I've got an opinion on everything.
T. Boone Pickens

Everything, Opinion

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
T. Boone Pickens

Somebody, Trigger, Hunt

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
T. Boone Pickens

Leadership, Team, Funding

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

Hard, Oil, Available

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

History, America, Energy

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
T. Boone Pickens

Become, York, Ground

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.
T. Boone Pickens

Good, Power, Important

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

Natural, Gasoline, Fuel

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

Down, United, Natural

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.
T. Boone Pickens

Best, America, Natural

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

News, Market, Computer

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
T. Boone Pickens

Ambition, Scale

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

Truth, Energy, Wrong

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
T. Boone Pickens

United, Natural, Gas

There is no free market for oil.
T. Boone Pickens

Free, Market, Oil

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.
T. Boone Pickens

Time, Long, Problem

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.
T. Boone Pickens

Everything, Else, Voice

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

Gasoline, Tight, Prices

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. Boone Pickens

Work, Sleep, Same

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.
T. Boone Pickens

Time, Daily, Two

You give the money where you want it.
T. Boone Pickens

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
T. Boone Pickens

Level, Highest, Compete

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: May 22, 1928

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