Big business Quote by J. J. Cale

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

— Bill Hader

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I…

— Charlie Wilson

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny…

— Michael Lomenda

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when…

— Harold Hamm

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.…

— Harold Hamm

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

— Philip Anschutz

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now…

— Jane Brox

When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the…

— Lawrence Wright

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

— Tyler Oakley

I grew up in a pretty small town in a rural area in southwestern Saskatchewan, close to the Montana border. You either work the…

— Colter Wall

People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

— Vinod Khosla