Quotes By T. Boone Pickens

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

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.

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.

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

I never did anything dishonest.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.