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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.

T. Boone Pickens

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T. Boone Pickens
Age: 91 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 22
Died: 2019
Died: September 11
Entrepreneur
Financier
Rancher
Holdenville
Oklahoma
Thomas Boone Pickens
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Opinion
Sure
Everything
Ethanol
Dependency
Foreign
Ought

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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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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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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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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.
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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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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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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 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 don't need any more money.
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I never did anything dishonest.
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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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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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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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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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When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.
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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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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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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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