105 Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

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

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    Work hard. Come early, stay late. That’s the way leadership has to approach it.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

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    I’m a Republican. I don’t want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

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