I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

More Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

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

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

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

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.