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I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
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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I never did anything dishonest.
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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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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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For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.
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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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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'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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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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A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
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I don't need any more money.
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When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.
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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 are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
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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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A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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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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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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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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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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