Don't believe the hype. When a muli-million dollar company and all it's stockholders look to you as the one person to sink or swim the entire company, you don't sleep. Either you are the man that got the company to the top, or you are the one person that destroyed the entire company.
You may picture CEO's out on golf courses, but if you want to picture the truth, picture them with 2 hours of sleep at 3 in the morning running over some statements having spent about a total of 5 hours with his/her family in the last week.
My dad and a friend started working for the same company at roughly the same time. The friend has progressed much, much further.
He also had to move his family every two years. And was rarely home for football games, birthdays, anniversaries.
Maybe there are CEO's who spend a ton of time on the golf course. But I'm willing to bet they practically lived at the office during the years that preceeded their appt as CEO.
More likely, tshe American Express "statement" to make sure their trip to Mistress Pollyanna's House of Discipline and frequent charges to Player's Elite Escort Service doesn't show up where wifey-poo can find it, where some sharp lawyer will grab half of his ill-gotten gains for the little woman. parsy.