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Bucking the Trend: The Story of Buck Autrey and Miller Electric Company
Sage … Pragmatic … Enduring
Buck Autrey doesn’t believe in giving up. Nor does the word “failure” enter his vocabulary. That kind of thinking turned a nearly bankrupt business into one of the largest and most respected electrical contracting companies in America today.
Since 1966, Buck has navigated Miller Electric through major recessions, feisty unions, stiff competition, and a fast changing industry. As the electrical industry’s stabilizing force during a Justice Department investigation, he literally changed the way the industry does business. No small accomplishment for one starting out as an employee in a skating rink.
What are the ingredients of this man’s success? Trust, commitment, integrity, hard work. These, along with Buck’s genuine care for others and a deep knowledge of the business, are his legacy … universal ingredients for success. One might add he also had a lot of fun along the way.
Buck Autrey doesn’t believe in giving up. Nor does the word “failure” enter his vocabulary. That kind of thinking turned a nearly bankrupt business into one of the largest and most respected electrical contracting companies in America today.
Since 1966, Buck has navigated Miller Electric through major recessions, feisty unions, stiff competition, and a fast changing industry. As the electrical industry’s stabilizing force during a Justice Department investigation, he literally changed the way the industry does business. No small accomplishment for one starting out as an employee in a skating rink.
What are the ingredients of this man’s success? Trust, commitment, integrity, hard work. These, along with Buck’s genuine care for others and a deep knowledge of the business, are his legacy … universal ingredients for success. One might add he also had a lot of fun along the way.
180 pages, Paperback
Published May 16, 2016
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September 15, 2019
The Real Deal!
I met Buck & Betty at the home of a mutual friend. They were there to console the widow of Chuck Foster, who had just passed away. Betty brought a table full of Southern Cooking and Buck brought stories of adventures over the years with Chuck. Man stories ~ fishing, hunting, drinking, gulping the joys of life.
One week later at the wake, he greeted me as a friend and made me realize how special he and Chuck, Betty and Heather were to all. I say … read the book and share in the story of hard working, upstanding, and successful people!
I met Buck & Betty at the home of a mutual friend. They were there to console the widow of Chuck Foster, who had just passed away. Betty brought a table full of Southern Cooking and Buck brought stories of adventures over the years with Chuck. Man stories ~ fishing, hunting, drinking, gulping the joys of life.
One week later at the wake, he greeted me as a friend and made me realize how special he and Chuck, Betty and Heather were to all. I say … read the book and share in the story of hard working, upstanding, and successful people!
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