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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Signed By
- T. Boone Pickens
- Signed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780307395771
- Book Title
- First Billion Is the Hardest : Reflections on Alife of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Personal Success, General, Petroleum
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Information
The man whose corporate takeover attempts and shareholder activism reshaped the oil industry in the 1980s recounts his most awe-inspiring comeback, which saw him net over a billion dollars in his seventh decade. 8-page b&w photo insert.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307395774
ISBN-13
9780307395771
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63145054
Product Key Features
Book Title
First Billion Is the Hardest : Reflections on Alife of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Success, General, Petroleum
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd9570.P53a3 2008
Reviews
"Entertaining…both Adam Smith and Horatio Alger would find something to like in the rise of T. Boone Pickens." -Wall Street Journal "The latest memoir from the Texas oilman…Pickens' sauciness does entertain." -Time magazine "Sassy…breezes along…salted with earthy aphorisms." -Bloomberg.com "Self-deprecating and audacious…overall, it's decidedly informative about the machinations of business." -Dallas Morning News "A fascinating, eye-opening bookby one of America's greatest iconoclasts andentrepreneurs. Boone Pickens' sense of daring and innovation has never been sharper. Readers will quickly realize that this billionaire's extraordinary achievements are but a warm-up for what he is about to do now." -Steve Forbes, President and CEO, Forbes Inc., and Editor-in-Chief ofForbesmagazine "Boone's analysis of America's energy situation is 100% on the money. In easy and colorful language he tells us where we are going wrong and what we must do about it. The country should listen to him - now!" -Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway "It is inspiring to see Boone Pickens tackling the big issues, daring himself to think bigger, putting forward wind, water and energy ideas that are nothing less than paradigm busters. This absorbing and illuminating book shows why Boone has been more successful than just about all his competitors, and, more crucially, why the problem of resource scarcity may not be as insoluble as some think." -Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, General Electric "Boone Pickens was among the first to grasp that corporations can be marvelous catalysts for progress if individual investors are given a say in what their priorities should be. Today, as humanity faces resource scarcity and dwindling supplies of cheap energy, the responsibility that has devolved to entrepreneurs, and the investors who back them, has never been more immense. Yet, in recounting his own story of comeback after comeback and tackling some of history's biggest oil, wind and water projects, Boone shows that sometimes all it takes is rejecting the 'usual' and striking out across virgin territory. In that sense, Boone is a pioneer, and this is a pioneer's story. Even now, the man they call the Oracle of Oil is blazing new paths that may, indeed, lead us out of the predicament we find ourselves in." -Carl Icahn, Chairman, Icahn & Co., Inc.
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-010661
Dewey Decimal
338.7/622338092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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