T. Boone Pickens Quotes

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

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.

Fundamentals make the market.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

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.

Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

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

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

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

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.

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

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

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

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

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

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.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night

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

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

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

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.

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.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

There is no free market for oil.

We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

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.

The First Billion is the Hardest

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.

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.

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

I never did anything dishonest.

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.

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.

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

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

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

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

I don't need any more money.

A plan without action isn't a plan, it's a speech.

I've got an opinion on everything.