T. Boone Pickens Thinking Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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