[A. Pole]

Hey, many of them become CEOs because they want to get rich. And quicker the better. Every man for himself.

Isn't what the free market and Ayn Rand are about?

[durasell]

I've made a couple of CEOs of big companies. Not many, just a few. They didn't strike me as the "money, money, money, money, mine, mine, mine" types. Mostly it seemed, at least to me, they were guys who just really liked to "win." Very competitive guys.

This makes sense because, and let's face it, after a certain point money fades to abstraction. The numbers are just a way to keep score. A five dollar bill is very real to a hungry guy who sees it as a means to something to eat. Fifty million dollars is just a number on the printed page to Bill Gates.