Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

About T. Boone Pickens:

Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of September 2014, Pickens has a net worth of $1 billion.
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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.

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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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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 don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

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

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

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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.

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I've got an opinion on everything.

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

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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.

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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 was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

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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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As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

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

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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.

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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

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Author Bio

  • NameT. Boone Pickens
  • DescriptionAmerican financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management
  • BornMay 22, 1928
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Financier; Rancher