May 2004

Dossier

Fort Worth Business Press

Name: William Rucker
(aka: Big Willie)

Age: 47

Company: Rucker Performance

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Company Description: Create custom bikes and hot rods for the radical customer that demands the best.

Years with Company: Forever

Personal Business Strategy: To see everything through the eyes of the customer.

Challenges company will face the next 12 months: Growing too fast.

Industry trends I foresee: Customers continuing to want stylized products.

Business advice to share: Must have passion

Leadership style: Hands on

Worst business decision: Not hiring the best I can get

First job: Washing cars and pumping gas at a Texaco station

Dream job: I have it.

Hobbies: Scuba diving and racing

Role models: My father and mother, Colin Powell, George Patton

How I know I am successful: I sleep well and I have a private bathroom in my office

Best place to find talented employees: Under your nose

One thing I’d like to change about myself: Lose weight

Favorite book: Anything by Clive Cussler

Favorite movies: A Knight’s Tale, Shrek, Top Gun

3 CD’s I’m listening to these days: AC-DC Live, Unleashed—Toby Keith and The Best of James Taylor

Favorite Restaurants: Dixie House, La Hacienda Ranch

Wendy’s or McDonald’s: Wendy’s

People I ‘d most want to share a meal with: My father, George Bush

One person I’d like to meet: Richard King

Pet Peeve: People who don’t care

First car: ’55 Chevy, 2 door hardtop

Car I drive now: ’04 H2

College attended: none

Favorite places to get away: Grand Caymans or Cozumel

Phone number I have that might impress people: Arlen Ness

I want my tombstone to say: He was loved

City of residence: Bedford

City of birth: Fort Worth

Spouse: Laura

Child: Erin

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