T. Boone Pickens has seen plummeting oil prices before and says he knows what the problem is. Energy companies are pumping too much oil and none of them wants to be the first to stop, Mr. Pickens said Wednesday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

The portraits here are of men and women in their 80s and 90s, rich in the rewards of substantial and celebrated careers, and although I know none of them except by name and reputation, I’m asked why their love’s labor is not lost but still to be found. Why do they persist, the old masters? To what end the unceasing effort to discover or create something new? Why not rest on the laurels and the oars?

In spite of a U.S.-led bombing campaign against ISIS in the Middle East, oil prices have dropped below $3 a gallon across much of the country in recent months. It’s an uncommon confluence of events that billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens said wouldn’t have been possible a decade ago.

Billionaire energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens has never tasted coffee in his life. The 86-year-old told Business Insider it was because his grandmother told him not to drink it. She was actually the source of a lot of valuable advice growing up.

Billionaire energy mogul T. Boone Pickens didn’t earn his fortune without the help of others. Most notably, he finds that some of his best advice came from his father.

LAKELAND — Up on the stage at Florida Southern College Monday, larger-than-life posters of T. Boone Pickens were on display and provided a few of his words of wisdom. “Don’t quit.” “Play by the rules.” Pickens, 86. was at the George Jenkins Field House to speak to hundreds of students.

BP Capital chairman T. Boone Pickens weighs in on the shale revolution and how to play the energy market.

Visiting T. Boone Pickens’s office suite in Dallas is like walking into a museum. The lobby is crammed with memorabilia: a whole wall of Mr Pickens’s face on magazine covers, a picture of him with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, a spectacular aerial photograph of the Oklahoma State University football stadium, rebuilt thanks to his donation of about $200m.

Escalating violence in Iraq is another reminder that the U.S. can – and should – wash its hands of OPEC, billionaire natural gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens said on Monday during an interview in Houston, Tex.

T. Boone Pickens talks about shareholder activism, the economics of wind power, and the use of natural gas for transportation on Bloomberg TV’s “Taking Stock” at the 2014 Milken Institute Global Conference.