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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
- Title
- The first billion is the hardest : how believing it's still early in the game can lead to life's greatest comebacks / T. Boone Pickens.
- Author
- Pickens, T. Boone (Thomas Boone)
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2008], ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "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." "When Pickens left Mesa at age sixty-eight after a spectacular downward spiral in the company's profits, many counted him out. Indeed, what followed for him was a painful divorce, clinical depression, a temporary inability to predict the movement of energy prices, and the loss of 90 percent of his investing capital. But Pickens was far from out." "From that personal and professional nadir, Pickens staged one of the most impressive comebacks in the industry, turning his investment fund's remaining $3 million into $8 billion in profit in just a few years. That made him, at age seventy-seven, the world's second-highest-paid hedge fund manager. But he wasn't done yet. Today, Pickens is making some of the world's most colossal energy bets. If he has his way, most of America's cars will eventually run on natural gas, and vast swaths of the nation's prairie land will become places where wind can be harnessed for power generation."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Blood, Guts, and Feathers -- Ch. 2. "A Big Deal Takes as Much Time as a Little Deal" -- Ch. 3. Starting Over -- Ch. 4. The Bottom of the Canyon -- Ch. 5. Loading the Boat -- Ch. 6. It's All About the Team -- Ch. 7. Learning to Live with Peak Oil -- Ch. 8. Going Long and Scoring Big -- Ch. 9. Stepping Up My Giving -- Ch. 10. "Roll Up the Maps!" -- Ch. 11. Mixing Oil and Water -- Ch. 12. The Biggest Deal of My Career: Wind -- Ch. 13. The Big Idea: An Energy Plan for America -- Afterword: Going Forward.
- ISBN
- 9780307395771
- 0307395774
- LCCN
- 2008010661
- 40015824011
- OCLC
- ocn176951606
- 176951606
- SCSB-9034716
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- Columbia University Libraries