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The First Billion Is the Hardest: How Believing It's Still Early in the Game Can Lead to Life's Greatest Comebacks
Source: T. Boone Pickens
MSRP: $20.21
With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil Dependency
It’s never too late to top your personal best.
Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens became a household name when he executed a series of unsolicited buyout bids for undervalued oil companies, in the process reinventing the notion of shareholders’ rights. Even his failures were successful in that they forced risk-averse managers to reconsider the way they did business.
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Posted on October 21, 2008 9:36 PM PDT
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Great book, great message, great American.
I got turned on to this book after watching and seeing T Boone Pickens everywhere on TV ads. I wanted to look into what it was all about. The title did it for me. Its a really inspiring story because this fellow who is now 80 years old did not give up on his dream of taking on big oil companies and trying to spread the truth about our dependence on foreign oil. I am a supporter of the Pickens Plan and this book really makes you fall in love with the man, and the plan. His "never give up, never surrender" ideology is refreshing and I really hope to employ that in my own life. I think our many people may never reach their personal best because they left the game in the 3rd inning. Great book, great message, great American.
