Quotes By T. Boone Pickens

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

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

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

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.

I never did anything dishonest.

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

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.

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

I've been married over 50 years of my life.

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.

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 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.

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

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

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

There is no free market for oil.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.