Aubrey McClendon Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Aubrey McClendon:

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
~Aubrey McClendon


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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.
~Aubrey McClendon


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Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
~Aubrey McClendon


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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.
~Aubrey McClendon


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#6426d170

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?
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#15137993

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#f3b468da

Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#b571f0a6

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.
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#b29aa05c

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.
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#04539ac0

I think most people act in their self-interest.
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#aefed430

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.
~Aubrey McClendon


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/aubrey-mcclendon-quotes/#5804bacb

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