Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. T. Boone Pickens More Quotes by T. Boone Pickens More Quotes From T. Boone Pickens I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens failurebusinessbelieve We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I'm concerned.. if we don't fix our energy problem right now. I've got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect. T. Boone Pickens moneytalkingbelieve I never did anything dishonest. T. Boone Pickens 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. T. Boone Pickens energywanttalking The first billion is a helluva lot harder. T. Boone Pickens billionsbad-assfirsts There is no free market for oil. T. Boone Pickens opecfree-marketoil 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. T. Boone Pickens moneystepsgiving I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water T. Boone Pickens airwaterpeople 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. T. Boone Pickens gasolineoilbelieve 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. T. Boone Pickens arabiaoillong 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. T. Boone Pickens gasolinefuelamerica A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more. T. Boone Pickens honestymoneythinking 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. T. Boone Pickens moneyleadershipmoving Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens predictability If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit. T. Boone Pickens issuesglassessides I've got an opinion on everything. Sure, you ought to do OCS, you ought to do renewables, you ought to do biofuels, you ought to do ethanol, all of them. Those are ours and we've got to get off the dependency on the foreign oil. T. Boone Pickens opinion I've been married over 50 years of my life. T. Boone Pickens over-50marriedyears I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. T. Boone Pickens sayyouworksleep I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. T. Boone Pickens americandont-careyoucare I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. T. Boone Pickens newlookfailureimportant
