Harold Hamm Quotes

“I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.”

“It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.”

“Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.”

“I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.”

“The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.”

“President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.”

“You can find oil if you have the will to look for it. A lot of people have lost the will to look for it in the United States.”

“If you don't have a giant oilfield, find one.”

“I literally started at the bottom, cleaning out tanks. It was hard, but I was following my dream of someday being an oilman.”

“When you get below the cost of supply, you can't 'drill, baby, drill.'”

“In Oklahoma, most of the oil people I have ever known fit that same mold. By joining the Giving Pledge, I hope to continue the legacy of encouraging others to commit their time and resources to worthy causes that will enable people with ambition and tenacity to achieve their goals.”

“Within two decades, it really transformed the entire industry. We went from what everybody considered terminal decline of our production in the U.S. and having to import from the Middle East or Canada. Since that point, U.S. production has tripled to about 13 million barrels a day.”

“We just need more Harold Hamms is what we need.”