The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and Americas Energy Future Pickens T. Boone
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and Americas Energy Future Pickens T. Boone It's Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.Both a riveting account of a life spent…
Specifikacia The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and Americas Energy Future Pickens T. Boone
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and Americas Energy Future Pickens T. Boone
It's Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of the remarkable late-life comeback that brought the famed oilman and maverick back from bankruptcy and clinical depression. "Sassy...breezes along...salted with earthy aphorisms."--Bloomberg Businessweek "Boone's analysis of America's energy situation is 100 percent on the money....The country should listen to him- now " --Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway Along the way, the man often called the "Oracle of Oil" shares the insights that have made him a legend-and describes the billion-dollar bets he is now making in hopes of securing America's energy independence.