T. Boone Pickens Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.”
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“A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.”
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“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.”
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“A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.”
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“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.”
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“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.”
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“On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.”
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“A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!”
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“Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.”
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“In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.”
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“Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.”
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“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.”
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“When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.”
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“Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.”
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“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.”
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“I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water”
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“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.”
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“When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.”
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“It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.”
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“I've been married over 50 years of my life.”
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“I never did anything dishonest.”
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“I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.”
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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.”
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“If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.”
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“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.”
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“If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.”
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“If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.”
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“We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.”
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“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.”
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