Quotes By T. Boone Pickens

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

There is no free market for oil.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

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

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fundamentals make the market.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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've got an opinion on everything.

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.

You give the money where you want it.