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

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.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

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.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.