KidsNews, Inc. recently featured a story about the Pickens Plan:

It’s so easy to imagine the world 50 years from now. Children playing beneath spinning windmills on every suburban house’s lawn. Solar panels topping the roof of every home. Battery powered cars whoosh by on highways. That’s if we listen to T. Boone Pickens.

They also wrote about T. Boone PIckens upbringing in Oklahoma and business lessons he learned at an early age:

Pickens also learned that making connections with people was the key. The more he got to know his customers, the more willing they were to honor their debts and pay him. A skill, even now at 81, Pickens takes pride in.

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