Quotes By T. Boone Pickens

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

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.

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

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.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

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.

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.

Fundamentals make the market.

You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

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

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

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

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

I've got an opinion on everything.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

You give the money where you want it.

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.

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

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

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.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

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.

I never did anything dishonest.