commerce, entrepreneurship, and conspicuous consumption. we definitely do have become celebrities just from being rich. i ll take the trumps as an example. their celebrity is generally that they are rich. donald trump has ventured into gambling and professional football and says he could negotiate a nuclear disarmament treaty with the soviet union. they say he s land hungry, money hungry, power hungry. the power is nonsense. i love the creative process. what about the name of trump city, trump tower we re sitting in, trump plaza, trump castle? it sells, mike. all i know that s all it is? it has nothing to do with the ego. all i know is it sells. what do you do? security. we don t need security. go outside. we have people outside. leona helmsley was the wife of harry helmsly, one of the major, much bigger than trump, real estate developers in new york. i asked for something.
star state to visit tycoon, entrepreneur t. boone pickens, the highest paid ceo in the country. even here, wall street is in charge. wall street being a parrot, green, as in money. he reigns over an entry foyer that runs the entire length of the house. and at the end of that foyer, we find this morning boone pickens. good morning, sir, how are you? good morning, harry. let s go ahead and head into the trophy room, if you don t mind. sure. t. boone pickens was a texas oil man who became the original corporate raider. he would buy a bunch of stock into company, talk about how the executives needed to be tossed out and make a play to take over the company. the company is only 1/20th the size of phillips, buys 5.8% of the stock privately. now he lets it be known that he wants to buy another 15% from the shareholders, and thus gain a seat on the corporate board.