Boone Pickens Quotations

Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

I think you'll see $75 before you see $60 again, $100 crude? Sure, it could happen.

My name's on the stadium. I don't know what else they could do. I guess they could put it on each one of the seats.

Let me give you a number that is pretty shocking when you hear it. The world uses 30 billion barrels of oil a year. There is no way we're replacing 30 billion barrels of oil. Just a million barrels a day is 1,000 wells producing 1,000 barrels. That's big.

We think the first half of the year is going to be somewhat slow, pick up later in the year and in the fourth quarter we'll be back up to levels like we are now.

You have gasoline in Europe at $5, and in the United States at $2.20. Eventually, it's going to have to move up. ... I do think you're going to see gasoline prices move up to $3 within a year from now.

You cannot help but be struck by the magnitude of this disaster, ... The American Red Cross is on the front line of this recovery effort. I'm grateful for the opportunity to help advance their mission and I appreciate the contributions from so many of our employees and their families. I'm hopeful this will help spur other donations from companies large and small. As a nation, this is a critical time to pull together and help this hard-hit region recover from this disaster.

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

It's almost like, what Katrina didn't get, this one's going to.

It'll be slow in the first half for energy stocks.

The world produces about 85 million barrels a day. That's where demand is now, too. And I've seen forecasts that demand is going to be higher than that by the end of the year.

You could work up to that level, $90 to $100 a barrel, in the next two years. It could go to $90 or $100 a barrel pretty quick if something went haywire.

The goal was to help rescue 200 dogs, ... They're overjoyed that they were able to rescue 80, but clearly disappointed and dismayed at the bureaucracy, which prevented them from taking the full 200.