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There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.