Oil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens Left Behind an Incredible Letter About the Best Life Lessons He Learned, and Every Line is a Must-read(Business Insider) In a message he wrote shortly before his death, the legendary oil magnate T. Boone Pickens recalled the lessons he learned about how to succeed in business and in life over nearly a century on Earth. The oil magnate died on September 11 at 91. Pickens made his billion-dollar fortune after founding the oil and gas company Mesa Petroleum, later starting the hedge fundBP Capital Management. Before his death, Pickens wrote a letter, recently released by the T. Boone Pickens Foundation.
This: No matter how much our wealth, how many toys we have, we cannot bring them with us to the other side. Really put things in perspective.
A man who wished his competitors well... A man who acted upon his instincts... A man who believed that the people not the government made this country great... This all sounds familiar. It seems that many net contributors to society share these attributes. ES
%% Good shots. His books also are a fun read, a bit crude, but oil+ gas can be like that.I'm surprised he lost money over all in cattle futures; but over all I think he did well with his cattle/quail hunt/quail shoot ranch also.Too bad for the oil bulls, he changed his mind on ''peak oil'' +was proved right on that. He delivered papers @age 12; expanded his paper route from 28 TO 156/great uptrend in %% basis.