T. Boone Pickens

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Fundamentals make the market.

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

You give the money where you want it.

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

I don't need any more money.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

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

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