Hygenie.com lists the Top 10 Dirty Businessmen -- corporate executives whose conduct has, for one reason or another, raised serious questions about their personal hygiene. Here's the list:- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer -- Check out the picture of him sweating: Yuck!
- Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky -- Face itcher!
- Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson -- Streaker!
- HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban -- Caught on camera ... picking his nose?
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen -- Perhaps he can talk Microsoft into acquiring some Crest Whitestrips?
- MacAndrews and Forbes Chairman Ron Perelman -- Forehead kisser!
- Italian mogul and Formula One figure Flavio Briatore -- Not even gonna touch that one.
- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak -- Rambo!
- One-time fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich -- Interesting taste in women ...
- Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates -- I don't think this one is gross ...
But what about sanitation? Is a smooth, suave, put-together CEO more likely to command respect? Or is a disheveled CEO who doesn't have time to floss more likely to be laser-focused on the business?
My hunch is none of it really matters -- but I'm sure some finance professor somewhere can come up with a study to demonstrate, definitively, that Gold Bond foot powder does improve performance.
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
11-14-2007 @ 9:35AM
suzie said...
Haven't we ALL noticed of late that AOL is becoming more & more of a tabloid rag?? It's difficult to even find an actual newsworthy story hidden between the crap they offer!! And customer NO service is a given. AOL is catering more & more to the degenerates every day and YET here we still are - paying for this!!! Go figure. Time to make a change folks. I'm going to.
11-14-2007 @ 9:48AM
Bet Land said...
Time to really make that line "Get A Life" work. Why do we always CRITISE others instead of looking at ourselves. This is the way of the INSECURE to bash others when we all do or could do the same at any given time. HELP Me Lord!!!!
11-14-2007 @ 9:55AM
marty said...
When you are a billionaire you can do what the hell you want. As a low wage writer, you have to come up with crap like this.
11-14-2007 @ 10:04AM
Dona said...
Having money doesnt mean you have good hygiene or manners or that you know how to dress.....
11-14-2007 @ 10:25AM
alicia said...
I thought aol didn't want it's users making rude comments and posting them on the internet but I guess it's ok for them to do it? Hmmmmmm.
11-14-2007 @ 10:27AM
Lisa said...
This really is a silly article. I don't see any true case of poor hygeine, just pictures taken out of text. Really AOL, shame on you! The only picture I have anything to say anything about is Paul Allen's. And really that's not poor hygeine unless he has bad breath to go with those teeth. With the money that man obviously has, he could very easily correct the color of his teeth. Blindingly white teeth is so in vouge it's a mistake for someone in any amount of limelight to let their teeth get so brown. Maybe, just maybe he's terrified of dentists??? Even that isn't an excuse any more. They can put you to sleep and you never feel a thing. So, Steve, for your own good, go and at least have your teeth whitened if not capped. I wish I had even a fraction of your money! My teeth would be perfect!!
11-14-2007 @ 10:54AM
Shannon said...
Almost makes me wanna read about Britney... almost!
11-14-2007 @ 10:38AM
Lisa said...
41. Haven't we ALL noticed of late that AOL is becoming more & more of a tabloid rag?? It's difficult to even find an actual newsworthy story hidden between the crap they offer!! And customer NO service is a given. AOL is catering more & more to the degenerates every day and YET here we still are - paying for this!!! Go figure. Time to make a change folks. I'm going to.
Posted at 9:35AM on Nov 14th 2007 by suzie
Hi Suzie! I am in agreement with what you have said. And, yes, we all have the option of leaving AOL for another provider. I have a little time of my own invested in AOL, not the company itself, but a long standing email address that I wouln't want to change, etc. How can a group of likeminded people really get AOL's attention? How can it be strongly expressed to the powers that be that we would lke to see a more newsworthy content. Not silly stories, not reruns of last weeks stories of interest. I have no doubt that others have done this in the past, but I don't want to not act because I can assume it's hopeless. I'm sure the only thing they would wake up and pay attention to is a mass exit of customers and that isn't likely to happen. So there must be another way to get their attention. Any ideas? Email me. Agriya@aol.com
11-14-2007 @ 10:39AM
chamelly124 said...
This is just a little snippet of information we all like to see every once in a while. I guess the "big dawgs" in the world pick their noses, have dental problems, like to swim naked, sweat, get food on their faces, & other gross things we "regular" people don't like to get caught doing either.
11-14-2007 @ 10:44AM
Bob/Denver said...
What a vital topic, someone's got too much time on their hands
11-14-2007 @ 10:54AM
JACK said...
WHY DO YOU NEED TO KNOW MY PASS WORD?
11-14-2007 @ 10:56AM
Rick said...
This story is par for all AOL news stories. I am on a 2 month free trial with AOL and will NOT become a paying customer. Stupid, very stupid story about several very successful people.
11-14-2007 @ 10:56AM
suzie said...
I have tried everything in the world to get AOL to even RESPOND to my concerns - they don't care at this point - they are so financially strapped that they are just doing what they want, when they want, and to hell w/our opinion of them. If we don't like it, then leave, they don't care - I've threatened to leave and their response - NO RESPONSE!! It's being taken over by stupid stories and comment boards which depict the calibre of their clientele. As far as losing your e-mail address - most other providers allow you to take it w/you.
11-14-2007 @ 4:06PM
Geyser said...
Paul Allen's Yellow Teeth show's a lack of care for his bad teeth. Besides getting him a Tooth Brush, he could use an Orthodentist, Braces at an earlier age would have prevented the Bugs Bunny smile.
Why are so many celebraties and people such as these men, have bad looking mouths? Condi Rice, our roaming Sect'y of State, comes from a well to do family. Didn't her parents think a presentable smile would be important later in her life? She looks like a Ten Dollar Hooker everytime she opens her mouth. There are so many others like her. It seems either these people go way overboard to have the perfect smile or lack any care the way they look. Most people don't realize how important healthy teeth are to your body's well being.
11-14-2007 @ 11:50AM
Bonnie L McCafferty said...
This piece was totally disgusting and a gross waste of space. AOL should be upgrading its information by posting intelligent, thought-provoking pieces instead of writing to attract the lowest common denominator. I felt slightly sick at the beginning, and I stopped when I realized it all sounded made-up anyway. That's even worse, like including Richard Branson. He was polar-bear dipping and it had nothing to do with hygiene, either good or bad. Shame on AOL. BLM
11-14-2007 @ 12:37PM
JACK said...
WHAT DO YOU EXSPECT FORM THE WOODSTOCK
CROWED
11-15-2007 @ 3:10AM
Pele said...
Wake up People! AOL had right to show the hideous no brainers who don't have common sense about health and hygiene! This subject matter is a wake up call to those who pick their noses and other disgusting behaviors. I can't believe you people are so against what AOL had to say/or show what filth is. Again, it is a health issue. You people are missing the point. If we do not speak up about these disgusting behaviors in PUBLIC, then you are validating that it's OK to do the hideous act. There are laws that say no spitting on the street. Again contamination, hence a health issue. How would you like to shake someone's hand (unknowingly)
that you may have just shaken a hand from a person, who did not wash their hands of a
dry/wet green snot. EWWWW! So you people out there think it's okay to be in public with these gross
hideous, disgusting characters that don't give a hoot about health and hygiene. You've got to be kidding. Therefore, I suppose you have embraced urinating in the street, walking away without washing their hands, then to come upon you to possibly shake your hand. People, wake up, the filth is around us. AOL is bringing to light that we as a society should discourage these hideous acts. But by way of your comments, it's okay to be filthy and disgusting. Suppose you see a gentleman walking out of a public restroom, and you are not in the know, whether he washed his hands. He comes over to you and introduces himself to you, takes your hand, and the fact that he held his penis or squatted in the restroom. Inevitably, you are touching his unwashed hands. (on the assumption that he did not wash his hands). Now you become a carrier of germs that will spread around until someone ends up sick. People, I say again, it is a health issue, AOL has the means and the right to expose the way germs, bacteria, and unhealthy habits are transmitted via person to person. Maybe we shouldn't cover our mouths or nose when we sneeze in public. Just smear it off with your coat, or use your arm or hand to smear off the mucous. Let the spray of mucous scatter in the air. Many viruses are created and carried and passed on from person to person in this manner. This same
act is Unhealthy and Poor hygiene. Wake up and Grow up and remember your health and hygienic class you had in high school. And yet we expect our DR's offices and hospitals to be clean and sanitized. AOL is reminding the public of what we have become. Lazy! and unhealthy with disrespect to others. It's filthy and disgusting. WAKE UP!!!
11-18-2007 @ 7:03AM
auctiontemplate said...
Because I think we've beaten that one with a dead horse, don't you think? We've let our opinion be heard, but no one is listening.
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11-13-2007 @ 11:15PM
General Patton said...
Good News: Surge is working in Iraq. Violence down, so military reducing 3,000 troops today. Why isnt THIS the top news? God Bless President Bush.
11-28-2007 @ 4:40PM
jcapps said...
I was so glad to see the market up surge today.
Finally, the American traders and stockholders are tired of the whinning from financials. We are weary of the sub-prime debacale. American is ready to move on.