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title: "4 Prospecting Oil Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-alexander/there-are-some-geologists-involved-with-prospecting-for-oil-and-other/)

[Christopher Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-alexander/)

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> [Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everette-lee-degolyer/prospecting-for-oil-is-a-dynamic-art-the-greatest-single-element-in/)

[Everette Lee DeGolyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/everette-lee-degolyer/)

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> [“In the 1920s, he decided that it was cheaper to drill for oil than to buy the overvalued shares of other oil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-yergin/in-the-1920s-he-decided-that-it-was-cheaper-to-drill-for-oil-than-to/)

[Daniel Yergin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-yergin/)

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> [Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-kettering/research-is-industrial-prospecting-the-oil-prospectors-use-every/)

[Charles Kettering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-kettering/)

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