MBA Exec MBA Texas BBA Bus. The first time you hear Red McCombs voice, you will immediately know why he is so successful. You can t help but pay attention to his thunderous baritone, naturally projecting itself beyond the boundaries of the dais. It overpowers the microphone and transfixes the audience.
Heads turn, people fall silent, eyebrows rise in expectation.
Opera singers would kill for projection like that. But it is interesting that money has never been a goal of mine, says McCombs. My goal was to be one of the guys that made the decisions. I wanted to be the best at whatever it was I was doing, and the money has just been a by-product of that. Born in 1927 with a head for business in the tiny West Texas town of Spur, by the time he was ten, Billy Joe Red McCombs knew he would be successful.