T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91
Source: Dallas Morning News
T. Boone Pickens, legendary energy executive, philanthropist, ardent Oklahoma State University supporter and one of America's most famous entrepreneurs, died peacefully Wednesday of natural causes at his home in the Vendome. He was 91.
Pickens had an energy career that went from laborer to corporate take-over raider to tycoon to business soothsayer. He was among the few business elites granted "dual citizenship" on both sides of the Red River.
L.A. movie producers would have been hard-pressed to create an exaggerated Hollywood version of the real-life man.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Do not go where the path might lead, but instead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' That was Boone," said retired banker Alan White, one of Pickens' closest friends. "Boone was always going some place where there was no path. He left trails all of his life. Many of us had the good fortune of being able to follow along with him."
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/09/11/t-boone-pickens-larger-than-life-energy-tycoon-and-osu-diehard-dies-at-91/
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)Life is unfair, I want Tom Petty back.
RIP T Boone. I hope you took it all with you.
Vogon_Glory
(9,086 posts)Lets not forget the role T. Boone played in installing Texas GOP one-party rule.
oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)Eff him
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)I'm glad he's gone. ... was another big-time asshole republican.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)with Carl Icahn)...which now is a favorite practice on Wall Street (and pretty ruined the stock market for a lot of average folks on the street)...imho.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)That's an informed opinion: I knew several people who worked for him over the years, and they all thought that---even amongst oil and gas execs---he stood out as a world-class dickhead.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)I expect he's burning in Hell, which must come as a relief if the alternative was to continue living in Oklahoma.
bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)T. Boone Pickens, and Wilbur Ross.
Always wondered why Paul Kangas mentioned them so often.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Because he LISTENED to a load of Repuke nay-sayers back in 2007 that wind would never turn a profit. If he would have gone forward he would have made a hell of alot of money and it would continue for decades to come.
DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)to cross the Swift Boat River to eternal rest ... nope
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)...assuming you mean his secret to birth control.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens
Greybnk48
(10,148 posts)Running commercials all the time about how we could get so much fuel if we were permitted to really, really, trash the environment before anyone knew what it really did. Fuck him.