Tommy Norris Quotes

You got to love your way through the failures. You never know if you’re in the last one till you’re in it.[to Ainsley]

What happens in a bust?[Rebecca Falcone]Well, you want oil to live above 60 but below 90. And don’t get me wrong, we’re still printing money at 90, but gas gets up over $3.50 a gallon, it starts to pinch. It hits a hundred, every product in America has to readjust its price. $78 a barrel, that’s about perfect. You know, brings enough profit to keep exploring, but it don’t sting as much at the pump.[Tommy Norris]

There’s two types of people that work in the patch, dreamers and losers.[to Ainsley]

The smart ones, they pay cash for everything and then sock away enough to ride out the troughs, but there ain’t that many smart ones.

Oil and Gas Industry makes $3 billion dollars a day in pure profit. Generates over $4.3 trillion dollars a year in revenue. It is the seventh largest industry in the world, ranked ahead of food production, automobile production, coal mining, and at 1.4 trillion, the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t even crack the top ten. The industries listed ahead of oil and gas are completely dependent on oil and gas. The more they grow, the more we grow. That’s the scale. That’s the size of this thing. And it’s only getting bigger. But before any of that money is made, you gotta get the lease. You gotta secure the rights and lock up the surface. Then babysit the owners, babysit the crews. Then manage the police and the press when the babies refuse to be sat. That’s my job. Secure the lease, then manage the people. First part’s pretty simple. It’s the second part that can get you killed.

How come you’re always right?[Ainsley Norris]Because I spent all my life being wrong. I never forgot the lessons.[Tommy Norris]

Getting oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it because we like it. We do it because we run out of options.

Every romantic relationship you’ll ever have will be a failure, except the last one.[to Ainsley]

Boomtowns.[Rebecca Falcone]Hell, we’re not any different than Tombstone or Dodge City or San Francisco. First comes the dreamers, then the bankers, then the salesmen, then the sharks, then the desperate, and then the thieves.[Tommy Norris]