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Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-if-smartmoney-says-so dept.

longacre writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs won over 30% of the vote in an online poll published by personal finance and investing news site SmartMoney.com, enough to earn their 'Person of the Decade' title by a solid margin over luminaries such as Warren Buffett (17%), Ben Bernanke (13%) and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (12%). From the article: 'Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.'"

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  1. And he does a pretty good two step... by number6x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not to mention his appearances on 'Dancing With the Stars'

    Oh wait, wrong Steve.

    Never mind

  2. Re:First decade of this millennium by Myopic · · Score: 3, Funny

    INCORRECT! Year zero doesn't even enter into the question, because as we all know the current epoch started with the year 1970. Thus, decades in our epoch end with zeros.

  3. I assume by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 4, Funny

    I assume they will back-date the award to the 90's.

  4. Well... since we ARE talking time travel... by denzacar · · Score: 3, Funny

    And there are very few of us who wouldn't want to take a time machine back to 2003 and buy a few thousand shares of GOOG.

    I'd rather go to 1890 and get me a couple of shares of GOGH.
    Vincent van, that is.

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  5. Well, if Steve was crowned -- by dwiget001 · · Score: 1, Funny

    -- he'd be "King", not merely "Person" of the decade!

    Voice: :"Well, I didn't vote for ya."

    Other voice: "You don't "vote" for a King."

    Ad infinitum/absurdum.

  6. Re:Yes, but is he still an asshole? by Tetsujin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, that bothers me too, Jobs is a classic narcissist, and stock price shouldn't be the measure of a person's worth.

    Yeah! You have to factor in how many shares they've got, too!

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    Bow-ties are cool.
  7. Re:Mohamed Atta or GW Bush by Attack+DAWWG · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you talking about?! Don't you lib'ruls know that teh Democrats had a DEATH GRIP on congress for the last eight years and are responsible for everything wrong that has happened, in spite of the virtuous efforts of the Republicans??!?!?!!!1111!?

  8. Re:Maybe the people that voted did so because... by carlhaagen · · Score: 1, Funny

    The hate-sick part of the Linux fanboy community is outraged by your claim.

  9. Re:what seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I'm pretty sick of the ridiculous assertion that anybody who buys a mac is a hipster. I'm a CG artist."

    lol, the utter fail in those two sentences is immense.

    Not a hipster... I'm an artist.

    LOL.

    Yes, you're exactly the type of person that the GP was talking about. The problem is, what he forgot to add, is that people like you don't even see it.

  10. Re:what seriously? by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 2, Funny

    So my profession dictates everything about me, huh? Every person in the computer graphics industry is a hipster, every programmer or IT guy is a nerd, every manager is a pointy headed idiot, right? What does that make anonymous internet trolls?

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