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Buck Rodgers

(1938) Baseball Player

17 quotes in 133 categories

Buck Rodgers is a baseball player, best known for The IBM way.

Quick Facts About Buck Rodgers

Born: August 16, 1938
Profession: Baseball Player
Notable works: The IBM way

About Buck Rodgers

Robert Leroy "Buck" Rodgers is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Los Angeles / California Angels for nine seasons during the 1960s. He later managed three major-league teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, and California Angels, compiling a managerial record of 784–774 (.503).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Buck Rodgers

Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working…

Business

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. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

Inspirational

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While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.

Body

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. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd…

Attention

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There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of…

Commitment to excellence

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First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

Firsts

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We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say…

Business

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You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide…

Accountability

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A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the…

Ability

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Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you…

Behavior

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IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

Carrots

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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of…

Achieve

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At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to…

Ceo

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Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Ability

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The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your…

Compliment

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People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are.

Can do

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Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and…

Agility

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