Quotes By T. Boone Pickens

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

There is no free market for oil.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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