#t

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

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#believed #failure #i #important #lead

I've got an opinion on everything. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#got #i #opinion

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

I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#funny #gideon-cross #humor #funny

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

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #better #distributed #down #every