The best Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

The best Quotes by T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019) was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million.

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

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Work Sleeping Funny Quotes

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

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.

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

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.

Telephones E-Mails

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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

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Here in Oklahoma, there's not a whole lot to do. So, a lot of your focus and attention is on basketball, which is a blessing in disguise. And this is where I wanted to end up, so I'm very happy I'm here.

Josh Giddey - February 2022

Oklahoma Oklahoma City Thunder

Sheldon: "Texas, Oklahoma... what's the difference?"
Meemaw: "Hey, now, I think you might want to crack open your psychology textbook 'cause that there is crazy talk."

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 2 Episode 9

Do you know why Oklahoma's state slogan is "Oklahoma is OK"?
Because they can't spell "mediocre".

"Why did Oklahoma raise the minimum drinking age to 25?"
"They wanted to keep alcohol out of the high schools!"

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

J. C. Watts

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Oklahoma - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

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Work Giving Up Beginning

Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

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If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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If you go to sleep at night, you lay your head on the pillow and fall asleep. Where are you even just during this time? Nevertheless, you open your eyes again.

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

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Actually, the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake.

Wade in Saving Private Ryan

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When you're waking up, the world is a blur. What was clear in a dream, suddenly makes no sense. No surreal rescues. No easy, magic way out. But you are awake.

Max Payne in Max Payne

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Dreaming Sleeping

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

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"There's perfect men around every corner", said God an made the Earth round.

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Working out makes people more comfortable with their naked bodies. So does Tequila.

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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Carlin

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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States.

Dick Cheney - June 1998

Of course I'll be wearing a jacket in my appartment during winter to save gas and energy, while the Football World Cup is hosted in air-conditioned stadiums in the middle of the desert of Qatar. Everyone's doing their share!

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FIFA World Cup 2022 Gas

Kaylee: "I think Jupiter is my favorite. Did you know it's the largest planet in our solar system? It's called the gas giant."
Mike: "Uh, that's not very nice."
Kaylee: "Pop-Pop, it's not that kind of gas."
Mike: "Oh, my mistake."

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Water, previously considered the opposite of fire, bursts into flames in the Gulf of Mexico.

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"I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now."
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year."

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Ron Weasley Muggles Telephones

Grace: "I had the phone put in. It's in the back."
Tommy: "If we knew someone else who had a phone, we could call them."

Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders - Season 1 Episode 4

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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone… you answer it!

Dave Chappelle

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Ethel Waters

Positive Quotes Telephones

Who the hell still uses Hotmail?

The Man From Toronto in The Man From Toronto

Computer: "You've got mail."
Scott Pilgrim: "Dude, this thing claims I have mail."
Wallace Wells: "It's amazing what we can do with computers these days."
Scott Pilgrim: "Dude, now I'm totally reading it."
Wallace Wells: "I'm so happy for you."

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

What are you going to do with that stamp, anyway? Put it on an e-mail?

There Is No Game

Letters E-Mails

Ted: "What could she possibly have to say me, that she couldn't write in an email?"
Robin: "I've cut out all my fingers?"

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 17

Fingers E-Mails

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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