The most influential business leaders of the past 25 years are, as ranked by USA TODAY:
1) Bill Gates, Microsoft
2) Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
3) Steve Jobs, Apple
4) Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google founders
5) Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines
6) Andy Grove, Intel
7) Jack Welch, General Electric
8) Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway
9) Charles Schwab, investments
10) Michael Milken, junk bonds
11) Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
12) Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.
13) Frederick Smith, FedEx
14) Phil Knight, Nike
15) Ken Lay, Enron
16) Oprah Winfrey, Harpo
17) Michael Dell, Dell
18) Meg Whitman, eBay
19) Howard Schultz, Starbucks
20) Edward C. “Ned” Johnson 3d, Fidelity Investments
21) Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
22) John Bogle, The Vanguard Group
23) Robert Johnson, BET
24) Barry Diller, Expedia, IAC
25) Steve Case, AOL
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