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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.
T. Boone Pickens
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T. Boone Pickens
Age: 91 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 22
Died: 2019
Died: September 11
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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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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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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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I've got an opinion on everything. Sure, you ought to do OCS, you ought to do renewables, you ought to do biofuels, you ought to do ethanol, all of them. Those are ours and we've got to get off the dependency on the foreign oil.
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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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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 never did anything dishonest.
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Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.
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I don't need any more money.
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A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
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A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
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I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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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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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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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 fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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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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