#ge

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#copy #dangerous #leads #more #oneself

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#intelligence #sculpture

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#average #chief #companies #executives #feeling

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

— T. Boone Pickens

#concerned #executives #far #four #making

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anybody #difference #i #i always #large

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#father #fortunate #gambling #gene #gift

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

— T. Boone Pickens

#hunt #i #like #pull #somebody

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#cheaper #exchange #floor #ground #look

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. ↗

— Midge Ure

#industry #meet #music #music industry #nice

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. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel