105 Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

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

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

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

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.

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

I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

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.