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In a final message written shortly before his death last week at 91, the oil magnate T. Boone Pickens shared the lessons he learned about how to succeed in business and in life. Pickens said he...

Pickens was also involved in Republican politics. He was an early backer of George W. Bush’s campaigns as governor of Texas and later president.

Pickens, born May 22, 1928, in Holdenville, a small town in eastern Oklahoma, spent his adult years in Texas. The long-time Dallas resident, who had battled back from a series of strokes and further head injuries sustained in a 2017 fall, died of natural causes surrounded by friends and family, according to spokesman Jay Rosser.

T. Boone Pickens Jr., the swashbuckling Texas oil-and-gas entrepreneur whose storied life cast him in the disparate roles of corporate raider, defender of shareholder rights, unlikely...

About T. Boone Pickens During the span of his long career, T. Boone Pickens created thousands of jobs and made billions of millions of dollars — for others as well as himself — and he wasn’t timid about spreading it around. His view: “I like making money. I like giving it away — not as much as I like making it, but it’s a close second.”

Update, February 2022: Five years since controversial oil mogul T. Boone Pickens listed his colossal Texas ranch for sale—for a staggering $250 million—the property still sits on the market....