T. Boone Pickens : (5) " If you don’t have a refinery operating, it’s hard to use oil that’s available. " - T. Boone Pickens " I don’t like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends. " - T. Boone Pickens " Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ‘four P’s’ – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders. " - T. Boone Pickens " 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. " - T. Boone Pickens " I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. " - T. Boone Pickens