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050 00 $aHD9570.P53$bA3 2008
082 00 $a338.7/622338092$aB$222
100 1 $aPickens, T. Boone$q(Thomas Boone)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85329320
245 14 $aThe first billion is the hardest :$bhow believing it's still early in the game can lead to life's greatest comebacks /$cT. Boone Pickens.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tBlood, Guts, and Feathers -- $gCh. 2.$t"A Big Deal Takes as Much Time as a Little Deal" -- $gCh. 3.$tStarting Over -- $gCh. 4.$tThe Bottom of the Canyon -- $gCh. 5.$tLoading the Boat -- $gCh. 6.$tIt's All About the Team -- $gCh. 7.$tLearning to Live with Peak Oil -- $gCh. 8.$tGoing Long and Scoring Big -- $gCh. 9.$tStepping Up My Giving -- $gCh. 10.$t"Roll Up the Maps!" -- $gCh. 11.$tMixing Oil and Water -- $gCh. 12.$tThe Biggest Deal of My Career: Wind -- $gCh. 13.$tThe Big Idea: An Energy Plan for America -- $tAfterword: Going Forward.
520 1 $a"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.
600 10 $aPickens, T. Boone$q(Thomas Boone)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85329320
650 0 $aPetroleum industry and trade$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100439
650 0 $aSuccess in business.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129589
852 00 $boff,bus$hHD9570.P53$iA3 2008