T. Boone Pickens Quotes

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

Living safely is dangerous.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.