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T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens
American Businessman
Born: May 22, 1928
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. T. Boone Pickens
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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. T. Boone Pickens
You Market Look How Commodities Works Need
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens
Failure Important Lead New Look Always Predictability Show Believed
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us. T. Boone Pickens
Extremely Prices Tight Go Up Going Shortages Us Gasoline
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. T. Boone Pickens
Somebody Hunt Trigger Like Gets Them Pull
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. T. Boone Pickens
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. T. Boone Pickens
Ambition Scale
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. T. Boone Pickens
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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. T. Boone Pickens
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. T. Boone Pickens
Life Problem My Life Never Had Over
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. T. Boone Pickens
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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. T. Boone Pickens
Environmental Natural Better Resource Case Cleaner Cheaper Domestic Than Natural Gas Fuel Transportation Gas Gasoline
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. T. Boone Pickens
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You give the money where you want it. T. Boone Pickens
You Money Give Where Want
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. T. Boone Pickens
Government Control Believe Price Fail Because Going Carbon
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. T. Boone Pickens
Truth People Energy Think Something Wrong Know Concerned American Being As Far As Far American People
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. T. Boone Pickens
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