Quotes from T. Boone Pickens

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

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

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

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.

Fundamentals make the market.

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.

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

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

We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You give the money where you want it.

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.

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

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

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

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

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

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.