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When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

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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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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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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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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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I never did anything dishonest.
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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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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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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'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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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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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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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
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A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
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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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A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
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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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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 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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