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

- T. Boone Pickens

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.

- T. Boone Pickens

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

- T. Boone Pickens

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

- T. Boone Pickens

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.

- T. Boone Pickens

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

- T. Boone Pickens

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

- T. Boone Pickens

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

- T. Boone Pickens

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.

- T. Boone Pickens