T. Boone Pickens Quotes

• Un plan sin acción no es un plan. Es un discurso.

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  Speech, Action, Plans

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2012

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• A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

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  Genius, Fool, Plans

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• When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

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  Hunting, Elephants, Rabbits

  Twitter post from Feb 09, 2012

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• Estar dispuesto a tomar decisiones. Es la cualidad más importante de un buen líder. No caigas víctima de lo que yo llamo el "síndrome del listo-apunta-apunta-apunta". Debes estar dispuesto a disparar.

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  Life, Leadership, Fall

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

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  Sueño, Ocho, Horas

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2012

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• Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

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  Worst, Persons, Handle

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

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  Money, Honesty, Thinking

  Twitter post from May 15, 2012

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• A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

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  Genius, Fool, Plans

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2012

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• Demasiados ejecutivos se han preocupado más por las cuatro P -paga, prebendas, poder y prestigio- que por obtener beneficios para los accionistas.

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  Business, Four, Pay

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• Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

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  Hard Work, Way, Late

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2011

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• Mantenga la informalidad. Hablar es la forma natural de hacer negocios. Escribir está muy bien para llevar registros y anotar detalles, pero hablar genera ideas. Las grandes cosas surgen de nuestros almuerzos de trabajo, que consisten en un bocadillo, una taza de sopa y una o dos buenas ideas. Nada de martinis.

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  Communication, Writing, Talking

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• The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

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  Determination, Elephants, Goal

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

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  New York, Oil, Looks

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• When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

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  Real, Blow, Foam

  T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

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• 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.

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  Heaven, Want, Faces

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• 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.

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  Mother, Father, Gambling

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• You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

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  Levels, Want, Highest

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• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

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  Want Something, Looks, Pairs

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

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  Glasses, Issues, Sides

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012

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• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

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  Ambition, Scales, My Ambition

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Average, Feelings, Share

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

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  Triggers, Hunts, Ifs

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

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Trying

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

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  Money, Giving, Steps

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