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AP - "The First Billion Is the Hardest" (Crown Business. 252 pages. $26.95), by T. Boone Pickens: T. Boone Pickens deals in big figures. Very big. He quotes Forbes Magazine as pegging his worth at $3 billion in 2007, when he was 79. ... Source: networks.feedburner.com --- 6 hours ago
I’ve been watching Pickens with a high degree of curiosity as he pitches his energy plan. On one hand I see a guy worth $4b that isn’t in this for the money, yet I haven’t seen too many billionaires that were not always looking for a 45 degree angle on a deal. I was therefore [...] ... Source: blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 1 day ago
Bill Virgin's column today provides a lucid and compelling deconstruction of T. Boone Pickens' plan for ending the energy crisis. ... Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 5 hours ago
From the new Texas Monthly's fascinating profile of T. Boone Pickens: Earlier this year, he went to visit President George W. Bush at the White House, bringing with him the whiteboard that he carries on his jet. Standing before Bush,... ... Source: gawker.com --- 9 hours ago
The Daily News and the Post today both led with goofy excitable front page stories on Michael Bloomberg's threat to cover our bridges and skyscrapers with hideous power-generating windmills (both... ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 12 hours ago
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"The First Billion Is the Hardest" (Crown Business. 252 pages. $26.95), by T. Boone Pickens: T. Boone Pickens deals in big figures. Very big. He quotes Forbes Magazine as pegging his worth at $3 billion in 2007, when he was 79. Now he wants to save the United States hundreds of billions every year by cutting its appetite for imported oil, which made billions for Pickens during his long career. At 28, the Oklahoma native helped found Mesa Petroleum, which became one of the biggest independent oil companies. His two partners put in a total of $2,500. He got a half share for just a promissory note in the same amount. read more ... Source: www.oilweek.com --- 1 day ago
The First Billion Is the HardestT. Boone Pickens (Crown Business)T. Boone Pickens deals in big figures. Very big. He quotes Forbes Magazine as pegging his worth at $3 billion in 2007, when he was 79.Now he wants to save the United States hundreds of billions every year by cutting its appetite for imported oil, which made billions for Pickens during his long career.At 28, he helped found Mesa Petroleum, which became one of the biggest independent oil companies. His two partners put in a total of $2,500. He got a half share for just a promissory note in the same amount. Eight years later, the firm took over Hugoton, a company that owned a large portion of the biggest U.S. natural gas field.In a few weeks our activities upgraded the market value of Hugoton from $77 million to $137 million, an all time high, he writes. He was on the road to that first billion.His road map provides a lot of good old-fashioned advice such as working hard and keeping up with the news. There`s less on producing actual fuel than on big bold trades in stocks and in pieces of paper that represent millions of gallons.For the small investor, his map doesn`t trace the long and elusive trail to that first billion. But he does insist that executives who make the big deals ought to own substantial blocks of shares. He says that should motivate them to profit stockholders as well as themselves.Pickens was frozen out of management at Mesa`s successor, Pioneer. He`d ... Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
Below is a statement issued by T. Boone Pickens following his meeting this morning with U.S. Senator Barack Obama : " I enjoyed the opportunity to meet Senator Obama and discuss an issue that is America's top ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 1 day ago
T. Boone Pickens describes himself as an oil-and-gas man, but what he has really been adept at producing over the years are attention and ruckus, with him at the center of both. Back in his corporate raiding days in the 1980s, his takeover bids for ... ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 1 day ago
T. Boone Pickens describes himself as an oil-and-gas man, but what he has really been adept at producing over the years are attention and ruckus, with him at the center of both. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Debbie Stabenow, and the rest of the Senate Democrats have recently begun singing the praises of T. Boone Pickens. ... Source: www.celebritymound.com --- 54 minutes ago
TEXAS oilman T. Boone Pickens, a leading advocate for alternative energy sources, told a tale out of school yesterday about Rudy Giuliani at an energy summit in Las Vegas. While acting as an adviser to Giuliani’s failed presidential campaign, Pickens recalled, he warned the candidate not to make promises he couldn’t keep about weaning the [...] ... Source: blogtalkradio.com --- 20 hours ago
Let's analyze the "plan" T. Boone Pickens is proposing. Is his plan a positive step in the direction toward energy independence, or is this simply a profitable venture for his growing empire? Call in with your concerns (646) 652-4620. ... Source: ecoblog.com --- 13 hours ago
There’s been alot of T. Boone Pickens commercials lately on the 7 o’clock nightly news. It’s on all of the networks from ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. I’ve even seen him on C-SPAN testifying to the house about how much the U.S. imports foreign oil. According to Pickens Plan, he wants cut 20% of our [...] ... Source: www.innovativeeconomy.com --- 9 hours ago
I always love talking to powerful innovators who really don’t have a full sense of their power yet. It is fascinating because they are so caught up in what they are doing, they may not fully grasp the impact of what they have already done. Such was the case Thursday when I interviewed [...] ... Source: www.omaha.com --- 12 hours ago
Texas oilman-turned-alternative-energy-proponent T. Boone Pickens told a crowd in Lincoln today that America's dependence on foreign oil has left it vulnerable and funding "both sides" of the war in the Middle East. "We're doing something that could be identified as stupid on our part," Pickens said. ... Source: www.journalstar.com --- 14 hours ago
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