AUBREY MCCLENDON

Whoever gets the land first, wins. Everything else in this business is secondary.

Natural gas is the bridge fuel. It is cleaner than coal, it is cheaper than oil, and we have more of it than we can use in a hundred years.

I have always believed that the greatest risk in this business is not drilling a dry hole. It is failing to lease the land before someone else does.

America sits on top of the largest natural gas reserves in the world. We are going to develop them. The only question is who gets there first.

We made mistakes. Big ones. But the core strategy — the land, the gas, the shale — that was right. History will show it was right.