T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens
Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr., known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of September 2014, Pickens has a net worth of $1 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth22 May 1928
CountryUnited States of America
levels want highest
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
names support trying
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
aquifers problem wells
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
use news computer
Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
bad-ass firsts billions
The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
triggers hunts ifs
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
fundamentals
Fundamentals make the market.
sleep eight hours
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
issues glasses sides
If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
gasoline shortage
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
patience thinking past
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
worst persons handle
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.
talking want energy
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.
differences trying making-a-difference
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.