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.

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

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 cubic feet.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

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

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

Patriotism ruins history.

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

AKG controls the heart of one of Ghana's most exciting new gold belts.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.