How do you become a Big Business CEO?
By Taskr36
@Taskr36 (13963)
United States
January 22, 2011 1:08pm CST
I hear a lot from liberals about how CEOs are all big fat, greedy, lazy, etc. and how they really don't do anything but make money off the work of other people. These allegedly fat CEOs are also repeatedly criticized for laying off hundreds of thousands of workers.
So my question is, how do you become a CEO? Apparently the criteria is just being fat, greedy, and lazy according to the rhetoric from the left, so with all the fat greedy, and lazy people I'm wondering why those people don't stop b!tching and become CEOs themselves. Are they being martyrs working for lower pay, or does it actually take hard work, long hours, a lot of sacrifice, and superhuman dedication to become a CEO?
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about the bums running banks and car companies into the ground while taking government bailouts. I'm talking about the CEOs of successful companies like Microsoft, Wallmart, eBay, etc.
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7 responses
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
22 Jan 11
Man, you're coming up with some zingers lately. 
It's pretty obvious how someone becomes a CEO...they either start the company and grow it or they possess the education/experience necessary in order to be hired as the CEO. Some CEO's have to answer to a Board of Directors and some have to answer to investors...and not all are fine examples of upstanding human beings. Just look at Florida's new governor. I'm real comfortable with this former CEO at the helm...not. CEOs, like anyone else, are individuals.
It's pretty obvious how someone becomes a CEO...they either start the company and grow it or they possess the education/experience necessary in order to be hired as the CEO. Some CEO's have to answer to a Board of Directors and some have to answer to investors...and not all are fine examples of upstanding human beings. Just look at Florida's new governor. I'm real comfortable with this former CEO at the helm...not. CEOs, like anyone else, are individuals.
@jb78000 (15139)
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22 Jan 11
crikey taskr - you aiming for the 'stating the obvious' cup this week? of course not all CEOs are big, lazy corrupt fatties. i am sure some are. just as not all big business ceos are the heroes you suggest although i am also sure some are admirable individuals.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
23 Jan 11
It takes a lot of hard work and long hours and dedication to become successful, whether it be as a CEO or as a business owner.
The liberals would have us believe that their success came from the sweat of other people... ie... the so-called working man.
The liberal idea of a working man is of course some unionized bum who knows nothing of either hard work and dedication but is real good at pricing themselves right out of a job and them bytching about how big business screwed them over.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
26 Jan 11
Gee, I think I could be called a liberal but I somehow missed the memo about all CEOs being big and fat!
I think we both know the truth is somewhere between "sacrifice and superhuman dedication" and "big fat, greed, lazy, etc." I don't think I've ever accused all or even any CEOs of being "lazy". What I have said and will continue to say is the amount of their salaries and bonuses compared to what those who do the "bull work" are paid has gotten out of hand. I apologize for not having the exact figures in front of me but I think not too many years ago the average CEO earned about 20 times more than the average worker at his or her company but now it's several hundred times more.
I think CEOs are like people in every field or position in that there are REALLY good ones and REALLY bad ones and many, many at different places in between. One thing I WILL say is I don't believe that being a CEO of a major company automatically makes someone "qualified" or "experienced" enough to hold a high government office. Our government and our nation isn't a business and shouldn't be run for profit or solely to benefit the "share-holders" or the wealthiest amongst us.
Annie
@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
23 Jan 11
CEO is hired based on their experience and also to their reputations. Most of them are already old, I am talking it in a particular country although not all because some country also hired to be their CEO from a closed friend or family member that are young and smart. But if you observed most of the CEO not only old they are also fat and lazy individual. At the beginning they are honest but later on they will become corrupt.
@murtaza45 (173)
• India
23 Jan 11
every time this new to my minds big business man how can big business to ceo because to time for mind to fresh no laziness,no time to time our business for grow for technolegde for business our joyfull time business to ceo now big business to ceo for now me.
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
22 Jan 11
CEOs are hired from resumes just like any other employee ususally. But not all CEOs are corrupt. I know a lot that are great business people and run honest productive busninesses. Their employees even like them. You only hear about the bad ones just like everything else in life.
