Co-Founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs is the “ultimate CEO who matters,” according to a new survey by Barron’s magazine.
The annual ranking of top CEOs from around the world seeks to identify the corporate leaders who have top-notch reputations in the financial community and would be missed by investors if they unexpectedly left their jobs.
Barron’s estimates Jobs’ departure would result in a greater loss of stock-market value than the loss of any other CEO in the world. The magazine estimates Jobs might be worth 20 or so points to Apple shares, or roughly $16 billion in market capitalization.
Tee Hee!
Oh blow me!
Oh blow me!
Comment by JohnS — 3/27/2007 @ 8:58 am
I thought the article funny, but you blew it away!
I bet Steve Balmer is pissed he wasn’t named. No one would miss that blowhard.
Why is it that only Apple shareholders can see that Jobs is the true Messiah? Will it take an Apple jihad to change your minds? Or perhaps Jobs must be crucified to make the point.
Just think, a whole 8% of the computer market could disappear overnight!
Just think, a whole 8% of the computer market could disappear overnight!
Only a small part of Apple’s business now a days. Good try though, but no cigar.
Which proves how overvalued Apple stock is.Reality distortion at its best.This guy could call bullshit breakfast and people would come back for seconds.
#8 – And that’s what makes me a CEO and you a blogopiner wanna-be.
I have a hard time taking any billionaire seriously until he’s willing to get his head shaved on pay-per-view television.
lol – good one, James. Yes, Trump’s WrestleMania challenge certainly raises the bar for all billionaires. There’s something about Trump’s gawd-awful coif that makes me think it should be destroyed for the good of mankind.
Or maybe it should be sent to the Smithsonian 😉
I bet Job’s ass must be raw after so many lips kissing it.
He who laughs last, &c, &c…
Please to be biting my IBM-compatible crank.
#1 – He blew everyone at Barron’s, might as well blow you too.
13, Lauren, just think — Gates could afford to have Jobs downloaded to a flash drive and just carry the thing ’round with him on his keychain.
8, Which proves how overvalued Apple stock is. Reality distortion at its best. This guy could call bullshit breakfast and people would come back for seconds.
Absolutely. See next.
9, If you’re really Jobs, tell me why my stupid iPod won’t last more than 45 days, and keep honoring that warranty — I’m on my 4th.
#15 BubbaRay says “9, If you’re really Jobs, tell me why my stupid iPod won’t last more than 45 days, and keep honoring that warranty — I’m on my 4th.”
Those iPods are addictive, BubbaRay — check yourself into a rahab clinic! I’ve heard that cheap, no-name players can work like methadone to get you off the iPod horse 😉
Steve J = ~$5G
Bill G = ~$45G
Looks like Bill must be nine times happier than Steve. Just think of all the cool stuff Bill can have that Steve can’t afford… Yessir, better go get s’more, Bill.
16, Got my wife a really cool MP3 player for Christmas, and I love it. Hers has a built in AM/FM tuner too, same 1Gb and about half the price and 1/4 the size. Adios, Nano, I guess it’s just a waste of money for style. Yep, iPod rehab, got to have it.
FSBO 1Gb iPod Nano, new in original package.
Bubba- do yourself a favor, flush that piece of shit and get your self a Sansa. Makes that iPod look like a childs toy. Half the cost and 3 times the features.
#19 – mark
“Half the cost and 3 times the features.”
Sure. Great deal, as long as you don’t listen to music on it – then you’ll never even notice the markedly inferior sound quality. 🙂
20. Hell, I’m old and half deaf anyway. Ive heard em both, dont see the difference. In a blind test, bet you couldnt neither.
Who is the better manager The one who can leave and things still run, or the one who can not.
Too bad there isn’t some dependable (unbiased) way of rating our elected officials on a value-added basis.
#15 – You keep breakin ’em, I’ll keep makin ’em, you keep buyin ’em…
Thanks!
20. Lot of good sound quality does when your iPod spends its life in the repair shop. Lets see Bubbas’ on his 4th iPod in a year! Must be a record. Hell, I gots 5 of em on my desk I’m shipping back to Crapple today.
#22
The first obviously, but human nature generally desires to be wanted/needed and in corporate settings this manifests itself as withholding information to oneself even to the detriment of the company. This results in a false belief that the person is “irreplaceable” if only because “only he/she knows how to XXXX”.
#22, 26 – George of the city & Nth of the 49th
George, that cliché works fine when it’s applied to the correct situation, but sadly, you are misapplying it. In the simplest possible terms, a manager is just that – a manager.
Steve J founded the company. He has, rightly at times and wrongly at others, set the company’s course. He calls the shots. That is not what a manager does; those are executive functions. You don’t have to be a Wharton MBA to understand the different roles of managers and executives. Whether you like him or not, he is not, and never has been, a manager. So your adage there is irrelevant to him.
His leadership has made a lot of people – including yrs trly – a lot of money. That proves his value beyond any doubt.
“…this manifests itself as withholding information to oneself even to the detriment of the company. This results in a false belief that the person is “irreplaceable” if only because “only he/she knows how to XXXX””
Nonsense. He doesn’t “withhold information” – the ideas which have led to this point in both the history of the PC industry and the history of Apple, came from this man’s mind. And as he and Woz basically created the entire industry, with the first consumer microcomputer, I’d like to see you come up with someone who has better ideas… and leave Bill G out of it, since he has made his fortune by appropriating the ideas of others. He never had an original thought in his life.
“false belief” Ya. Think of all those idiot CEOs who don’t realize that any schmuck off the street coulda come up with the same ideas. Wow, what a bunch of easily conned fools!
Really, Nth, your hypothesis there couldn’t have less to do with the reality. Applying the situation of midlevel executives who use that ploy you describe to make themselves appear to be irreplaceable has nothing to do with the situation of a CEO / founder who has been proven to have the ideas that have, for many years, resulted in the company’s successes.
Oh, yes…
#0 – Eideard
Tee-hee, indeed! 🙂
I expect to make to see Apple up at least 25-30% from it’s current ~$93 by the time the iPhone has been out a month… look for a 10%+ surge in the first post-intro week alone.
Yuk-yuk!