Aubrey McClendon quotes

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. (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. View quote
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I think most people act in their self-interest. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year. View quote
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American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made? View quote
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Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. View quote
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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... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations. View quote
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Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process. View quote
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Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage. View quote
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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 electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries. (Aubrey McClendon)

Aubrey McClendon

Aubrey McClendon - Image
Photo: McNeese Studios, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: July 14, 1959
Died: March 2, 2016
Quotes count: 11

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