If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

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.

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

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

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

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.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

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

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

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

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

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people's love for you.

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.