T. BOONE PICKENS

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

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

I never did anything dishonest.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

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

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

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

You give the money where you want it.

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.

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

I've been married over 50 years of my life.

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

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

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.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

Fundamentals make the market.

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.

There is no free market for oil.

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

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.