Everyday you walk outside and that is your office. It’s a great life but it’s a very demanding life. And you have to love it to make a living on it. You have to love it.

The encroachment of government, not just the political side of government, but the regulatory side, is huge and erroneous.

In the ranching business, if you’re not changing, you’re going to be left behind.

The incentive for cattle theft today is probably even stronger then it was back in 1887.

It was just something I always enjoyed doing. Something about the open spaces. There might not be a man in fifteen, twenty miles.

We use horses a lot on the ranch. We’re on horseback about 75% of the year.

We think of ranchers as in the cattle business. We’re really not. We’re in the grass business.

A good rancher takes care of his land. He understands his livestock, whether it be horses or cattle, and knows how to coordinate his land and the animals to make a living off that land.

It’s a lifestyle. You just get to see God’s hand everyday if you’ll just look. The rain, the clouds, the rainbow, you’ve got the baby calves, the green grass—everything.

Ranching to me is just the best way of life a person can have. The land more or less is the heart and soul of the people that live on it.

It really ticks me off. You’ve already been taxed on your land, and your cash, and your assets. But then [the government] want that 55% when you die!

We have a saying about God being in charge. When you make the application, you found out His standards are pretty high.