A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan! T. Boone Pickens More Quotes by T. Boone Pickens More Quotes From T. Boone Pickens In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us. T. Boone Pickens realizing energy america Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. T. Boone Pickens support names trying 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. T. Boone Pickens oil iraq thinking I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. T. Boone Pickens patience past thinking I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. T. Boone Pickens aquifers wells problem 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. T. Boone Pickens share feelings average 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 shortage gasoline If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. T. Boone Pickens refinery oil use 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 commodity looks needs 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 failing government believe You give the money where you want it. T. Boone Pickens want giving 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 increase should thinking I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. T. Boone Pickens making-a-difference differences trying If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. T. Boone Pickens hunts triggers ifs If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. T. Boone Pickens funding team ifs 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 voice sound thinking I don't need any more money. T. Boone Pickens more-money needs 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. T. Boone Pickens gambling mother father Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders. T. Boone Pickens four business pay I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens failure business believe
