Top 80 Pickens Quotes
#1. I pull out a zippered CD case, but unfortunately, it's slim pickens inside, and I say this not only because the choices are bad, which they are, but because there actually is a Slim Pickens CD inside.
Melissa DeCarlo
#2. I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
Les Claypool
#3. Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
Frank Gaffney
#4. 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.
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#5. The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
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#8. If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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#9. If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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#11. Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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#12. A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
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#13. such a bitter taste in his mouth? He had become so accustomed to her feisty spirit and to the martial spark that flared in her eyes when she was ready to do battle, that this quiet surrender left him feeling more like a bullying lout than an officer deserving
Andrea Pickens
#14. It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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#15. Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
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#16. When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.
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#21. An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
William Pickens
#22. I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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#23. Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice ... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
William Pickens
#25. Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Odd how being away could teach you about home.
Cathy Pickens
#30. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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#35. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
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#36. 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
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#37. We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
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#41. To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
William Pickens
#43. I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#49. Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
William Pickens
#52. Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.
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#53. In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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#54. We feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens
#55. Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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#57. It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
William Pickens
#58. If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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#59. A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.
Jim Pickens
#60. The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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#65. Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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#66. I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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#70. 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.
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#72. I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
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#78. I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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#79. As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
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