I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million …

- Aubrey Mcclendon

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilli…

- Aubrey Mcclendon

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary s…

- Aubrey Mcclendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

- Aubrey Mcclendon

I think most people act in their self-interest.

- Aubrey Mcclendon

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

- Aubrey Mcclendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

- Aubrey Mcclendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired…

- Aubrey Mcclendon

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

- Aubrey Mcclendon