Top 36 Will Pickens Quotes
#1. 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.
T. Boone Pickens
#2. 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
#3. Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.
T. Boone Pickens
#5. As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
T. Boone Pickens
#6. I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
T. Boone Pickens
#7. If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
T. Boone Pickens
#8. 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.
T. Boone Pickens
#9. 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
#10. I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
T. Boone Pickens
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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.
T. Boone Pickens
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
T. Boone Pickens
#21. A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.
Jim Pickens
#22. If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
T. Boone Pickens
#23. It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
William Pickens
#25. Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
T. Boone Pickens
#26. We feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens
#27. In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
T. Boone Pickens
#28. 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
#31. Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
William Pickens
#33. 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
#34. 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
