In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources that we have available to us.
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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.
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
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.
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.
There is no free market for oil.
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.
If somebody I don’t like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don’t hunt for them.
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you’ll have a competitive team.
For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We’ve spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.
I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother’s gift for analysis.
Predictability can lead to failure.
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.
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.
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.