If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.
I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.
I think a great athlete transcends eras.
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.