Comments on: It Pays (A Lot) To Be A CEO

Half Of America's Top Executives Make More Than $8.3M A Year

[bloggerbud]

Oh sure Standlee5...

Some guy, out of no where just swoops in and decimates a company, all by himself. There is no Board, no oversight committee, no nothing. C'mon...

Have you even been an executive, taken an MBA class, bought a stock, read the Journal?

What world are you from?

[standlee5]

If you want to make more go out and earn it.Posted by bloggerbud at 08:58 PM : Jun 09, 2007

They don't earn it. They're the ones ruthless and mean enough to swoop in and gut and company and it's employees to increase the bottom line. They get paid for being the executioner.

[bloggerbud]

Can you spell, J-E-A-L-O-U-S?

All you whinners make it sound like every dollar these guys get is coming out of YOUR pocket. This is what happens in a free market. I wonder if you complain about Tiger Woods making $30M for hitting a little ball or Dan Brown making $70M for writing a novel. Ever wonder what the Pope is worth? How about the Queen of England? Guess how much a cardiologist makes. Stop complaining. If you want to make more go out and earn it.

Maybe we should all make minimum wage, huh?

[afinefolly]

do minimum wage get well soon feed the world first aid on the trail folk canvas more area than do techno savy get sick soon tax the world first strike on the trail folk?

[mh4cbs1]

Is ONE BIG Corporate-Congressional-Lobbyist Revolving-Door PARTY!

They have been Waging Class Warfare against the Middle Class since 1980. When anyone even points this out the corporate-press accuse THEM of class warfare.

When will Americans WAKE UP and vote these Republicrats OUT!

Vote Green Party and at least you can sleep well at night.

[evq123]

What is most amazing about this is that Yahoo is not getting good results recently, their stock is very low and their sales are going down.

Because of this, I really don't understand why the CEO of Yahoo is getting a lot of money, if he is not doing correctly his job.

This amount of money can be given to CEOs of Google, Apple, and other companies that are really doing very good their job.

For example Steve Jobs is doing amazing work at apple, he is a man that really deserves to receive payments like this ones.

[walt1944-2009]

When I was a kid, my father owned a "Ma & Pa" grocery store in the 1950's. When I worked in the store (which was a requirement, not an option), my dad always told me to be nice to the customers, because for every one you tick off, you just ticked of 12 or more of them.

Naturally, today, with CEO's making so much money, the business ethic today is, "Make as much money as you can and the customer be damned! If I lose a customer, I'll find another one to replace him!". Wasn't it PT Barnum who said that there is a sucker born every minute. One day, big business is going to run out of suckers!

[omega39-2009]

I say, replace them all with cheap immigrant labor, and let the sellout CEOs see what it is like.

[bellal-2009]

What do these people really DO? I mean nobody can be worth that much money. Can't they hire 10 people to co-direct and pay them a couple million each?

[frb01]

ridiculous

[gkc99]

THESE PEOPLE DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY--WE MUST IMMEDIATELY MAKE GEORGE W. BUSHIT'S TAX CUTS PERMANENT!

So what if a lot of kids don't have health care?

[middleman8]

WHATS THE USE TO COMMENT ON CAPITALISM GONE AMOK?

[hypnotoad72]

And CEOs rely on investors... not customers who come back for more product.