Will Pickens Quotes & Sayings

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

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. — T. Boone Pickens

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. — T. Boone Pickens

We feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment. — Francis Wilkinson Pickens

The first billion is a helluva lot harder. — T. Boone Pickens

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

Odd how being away could teach you about home. — Cathy Pickens

Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion. — William Pickens

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness! — William Pickens

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. — T. Boone Pickens

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

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. — T. Boone Pickens

Fundamentals make the market. — T. Boone Pickens

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

A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire. — Jim Pickens

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. — T. Boone Pickens

I've got an opinion on everything. — T. Boone Pickens

A plan without action isn't a plan, it's a speech. — T. Boone Pickens

You give the money where you want it. — T. Boone Pickens

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

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

I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night — T. Boone Pickens

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

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

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

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech. — T. Boone Pickens

I've been married over 50 years of my life. — T. Boone Pickens

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

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. — T. Boone Pickens

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

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. — 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

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

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. — T. Boone Pickens

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan! — T. Boone Pickens

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

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. — T. Boone Pickens

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