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...Boone Pickens and Getty Oil and for pioneering the aggressive soliciting of new clients, rather than relying on longstanding relationships to pull in deals....
...Boone Pickens dies at 91 T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oil tycoon who was among the most feared dealmakers of his day, has died at the age of 91....
...And I started the meeting by pointing my finger at him saying, ‘I’m going to tell you not what you want to hear, but what you have to hear’....
...The Wall Street powerhouse, a clear number one in M&A advice, has traditionally been the go-to bank for companies on the receiving end of a bid....
...While Schwartz voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, he says: “I’m a lifetime Democrat. My children and my grandchildren are Democrats....
...Mr Trump has already appeared to moderate some positions such as his proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, telling CNN on Friday: “I’m not the president yet. Everything is a suggestion.”...
...increase in high-profile mergers in the luxury/lifestyle industry that indicate it is desirable to gain access to customers, design, quality materials and skilled craftsmanship through acquisition,” says Beth Pickens...
...I’m not worried about my gas bill. I’m worried about hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to my house.”...
...It served T Boone Pickens very well, for example: he became a billionaire by acting as a combination of oil wildcatter and corporate raider. That’s not true at the moment....
...“If you’re a trucker and I’m a trucker, and my fuel costs half what yours does, I can tell you I’ll win,” Mr Pickens says....
...And that I’m on my feet about two metres away – in front of the bar, in fact, after two pre-dinner cocktails. It’s an urban cowgirl’s dream come true....
...Boone Pickens, “as smooth as a stucco bathtub”, but his returns speak for themselves....
...“I’m just worried that it’s going to make its way over here.” It already has....
...“Unlike pre-financial crisis, when there was a lot of bellicose rhetoric from activists, they’ve gotten a lot savvier,” says Mark Shafir, co-head of global M&A at Citigroup....
...I work hard, I’ve a great amount of knowledge because I’ve been in business for so long and I’m a good leader. And your three worst? I don’t have three. The worst is that I’m 82. I’m old....
...I’m 58 and I’ve no idea how long this will take to play out. It could take a decade – who knows?”...
...But the difference with Mr Pickens and his ilk was that they had sackfuls of borrowed cash – financed by the junk bond market – to lure shareholders into their arms....
...Boone Pickens. Wasserstein left First Boston in 1988 to form his boutique with Mr Perella, famously insisting on his own name coming before his partner’s....
...Their popularity as an anti-takeover measure increased in the early 1980s as traditional companies such as TWA, Unocal and USX moved to repel takeover bids from corporate raiders including T Boone Pickens...
...Boone Pickens, the 81-year-old oilman who has become a spokesman for the natural gas industry, told Congress in October that the US has more natural gas than all the oil in Saudi Arabia....
...Noam Wasserman, a Harvard professor who studied founder-CEOs of internet companies, quotes one as saying: “I’m the one with the vision and the desire to build a great company – I have to be the one to run...
...We took a loss and got out of it and I’m glad I did.”...
...Whenever I work on a book, and I’m about halfway through, I tell myself: “There is no way I’m ever going to do this again. No more books for me.”...
...Mitchell, who had a degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M, worked for oil group Amoco for a year and a half before serving in the US Army Corps of Engineers....
...“One of the things M. King Hubbert couldn’t have known is about the technology to drill in 12,000 feet of water and to drill horizontally,” Mr Caruso says....
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