Oil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens Left Behind an Incredible Letter About the Best Life Lessons

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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.
 
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If you are reading this, I have passed on from this world — not as big a deal for you as it was for me.

In those speeches, I'd always offer these future leaders a deal: I would trade them my wealth and success, my 68,000-acre ranch and private jet, in exchange for their seat in the audience. That way, I told them, I'd get the opportunity to start over, experience every opportunity America has to offer.

It's your shot now.
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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.
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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.
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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.:caution::caution: :cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
 
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