To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

Fundamentals make the market.