they’re selling but we’re not buying
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
outrageous statements made by business
leaders for this list we’re focusing on
extreme public statements allegedly made
by prominent figures in the business
world that means we’re excluding any
words that might have been recorded or
said in private such as Donald
Sterling’s infamous racist rant yeah it
bothers me a lot if you want
broadcasters you’re associating with
black people or Leona Helmsley’s comment
about taxes and little people
number ten competition with Africa Gina
Rinehart although she has this now
national profile as a mining magnate
that she has never in her own right
fully owned and operated a mine with a
net worth of eleven billion US dollars
in 2015 the chairperson of the privately
owned mineral and exploration company
Hancock prospecting is one of the
richest people in the world but wealth
doesn’t always equal generosity at least
not when you consider what Gina Rinehart
declared over YouTube with respect to
her views on how expensive it is to
employ Australians furthermore Africans
want to work and its workers are willing
to work for less than $2 per day such
statistics make me worried for this
country’s future her controversial 2012
comments for the sydney mining club
unsurprisingly drew backlash most
notably then Australian Prime Minister
Julia Gillard dismissed the statements
while then Deputy PM and Treasurer Wayne
Swan called them insulting to their
fellow Australian workers number nine
digital prick Don Mattrick I think
people are imagining outcomes that are
worse than what we believe it’s going to
be in the real world when the Xbox one
was initially released in 2013 the
president of Microsoft’s interactive
entertainment seemed pretty sure of
himself and it’s always on feature which
was complemented by a controversial
digital rights management system the
average internet connection
is working the majority of the day but
gamers didn’t quite buy this concept
they also didn’t appreciate Don Mattrick
dismissive attitude towards those
without 24/7 Internet access and so it
didn’t really come as a surprise that he
left the company shortly after making
this statement fortunately we have a
product for people who aren’t able to
get some form of connectivity it’s
called Xbox 360 number eight gummy bears
and cigarettes bad habits James J Morgan
relaxes your larynx does it not
cigarette smoking calms the nerves and
gives you confidence in the late 90s the
president of Philip Morris USA offered
up a unique correlation between candy
and cigarettes when he was questioned
about the hazards of tobacco and
secondhand smoke
basically he equated smoking with going
to the movies and tearing through an
entire bag of gummy bears that’s right
James J Morgan curiously noted the
following similarities between inhaling
actual smoke into your lungs from
cigarettes and consuming the sweet stuff
quote if they are behaviorally addictive
or habit-forming they are much more like
caffeine or in my case gummy bears call
us crazy but somehow cigarettes seem to
be a bit more problematic for the human
body roll oh yeah number seven the
Ratner effect
Gerald Ratner I certainly took a turn
for the worse after making that infamous
speech in 1991 when you become a monster
business magnate a certain sense of
invincibility can take over and may lead
you to blindly spew verbal diarrhea for
example take Gerald Ratner the former
chief executive of a jewelry company
called Ratner’s group Ratner took a
brutally honest approach to his business
by slamming his own products in a public
speech exactly how honest was he his
words were people say to me how can you
sell this for such a low price I say
because it’s total crap
this and further remarks along similar
lines led customers to shop elsewhere
Ratner’s company to tank and forced the
company’s new leader to dismiss Ratner
in 1992 what are you doing these days
mister and I said I’m back in the
jewelry business is it all crap I said
that’s a really good joke number six
Mexican criminals and rapists Donald
Trump if Donald Trump wasn’t already on
your what the hell radar prior to 2015
for his business ventures marriages and
or his time as a television personality
Kate you’re fired
he definitely made himself known to you
in June of that year with his
presidential campaign kickoff speech
when discussing illegal immigration
Trump declared quote when Mexico sends
its people they’re bringing drugs
they’re bringing crime they’re rapists
sure he ended it with some I assume are
good people but the damage had already
been done
aside from the public outrage the
controversial and politically incorrect
statements led several companies to
terminate their deals with Trump
including NBC and Univision which were
behind the apprentice and the Miss
Universe Organization people have to be
alerted to the fact that we are getting
some really bad characters coming into
this country
number five rented uterus is Domenico
Dolce some people are calling for a
boycott after the two designers made
inflammatory remarks about families who
give birth to children through in vitro
fertilization in case you are curious
the Italian fashion designer named
Domenico Dolce is not a fan of in vitro
fertilization so much so that in 2015 he
went on record with regard to his
beliefs about surrogate mothers the
statement didn’t especially please sir
Elton John who has children by IVF or
boost the sales of Dolce & Gabbana the
now infamous entrepreneur and one half
of the luxury fashion house stated in a
2015 magazine interview quote you are
born from a father and a mother or at
least that’s how it should be
for this reason I am not convinced by
what I call children of chemistry or
synthetic children uterus is for rent
sperm chosen from a catalogue such a
strong statement for such a seemingly
sweet guy I just found it
offensive to say that any child was
synthetic their own personal beliefs
about family of their own beliefs and I
respect them although I find it very sad
number four bad dog Doug Morris you know
how a puppy tilts its little head when
trying to understand human words well
imagine the collective confusion when
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris
demonstrated his complete lack of
business savvy when he tried to explain
how legal and illegal file sharing
disrupted the music industry rather than
acknowledging the power of technology he
just admitted that record people didn’t
understand such things and posed a
rather strange question quote it’s like
if you were suddenly asked to operate on
your dog to remove his kidney what would
you do good point Doug solid argument
number three everything John McAfee as I
said I’ve had nothing to do with McAfee
software for over 15 years I’ve had more
pressing things to do the URL to his own
personal website is who is McAfee com
and to be honest we’re not quite sure
let’s say this the words that come out
of this computer programmers mouth don’t
often fall in line with typical human
logic with him most notably stating that
using his own antivirus program is quote
too annoying it’s kind of hit or miss
with John McAfee John why are you going
maybe to jail for example his response
to being jailed in Guatemala after he
hacked into Belizian government
computers to clear his name was quote
this is what happens when you try and
address something that changes the
status quo of a political system you
better be prepared to be crucified well
yeah if they’re not after me then we
have a mass hallucination and we should
all commit ourselves number to feed the
world Peter Brabeck LaMotta do humans
have a public right to access water the
substance we are mostly made of if
you’re Peter Brabeck LaMotta the answer
apparently is no and you should take a
serious interest in the privatization of
water and proceed to give the world a
reality check the comments made by the
chairman of the Nestle group which
surfaced in the 2005 documentary we feed
the world were as follows
quote the one opinion which I think is
extreme is represented by the NGO
whoo bang on about declaring water a
public right that means that as a human
being you should have a right to water
that’s an extreme solution good luck
with that one and if we do not give a
value to the water those investments are
not going to be made because nobody has
an interest to invest because you don’t
have an economically return before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions I know it sounds
cruel but he’s going to do something he
should divorce her and start all over
again but you know to make sure she has
custodial care and somebody looking
after her there’s no one who wants this
thing over more than I do
you know I love my life back number one
Nostradamus
Steve Ballmer do we have any clipper
fans here I can’t hear you today he’s
the overly enthusiastic owner of the LA
Clippers a man who seemingly knows how
to connect but sometimes it seems that
perhaps Steve Ballmer just shouldn’t
talk for example how does a
harvard-educated CEO of Microsoft manage
to drastically underestimate one of the
most important modern innovations namely
the iPhone this is one device in 2007
Ballmer’s arrogance showed when he
talked with USA Today and said this
quote there’s no chance that the iPhone
is going to get any significant market
share no chance equally ridiculous was
Alan Sugar’s 2005 assertion that quote
next Christmas the iPod will be dead
finished gone kaput but it’s definitely
Ballmer statement that takes the cake we
were the number one most profitable
company our business for a long time two
guys have passed us and they both did it
by making phones Apple and Samsung so I
mean I don’t think the software was the
right play there do you agree with our
list
cuz it’s titled crap what business
leaders statement do you think is the
most outrageous how to hell can you vote
for this guy for more mind-blowing top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com but I
recognize the dilemma and the last thing
I do is condemn you for taking that kind
of action
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
outrageous statements made by business
leaders for this list we’re focusing on
extreme public statements allegedly made
by prominent figures in the business
world that means we’re excluding any
words that might have been recorded or
said in private such as Donald
Sterling’s infamous racist rant yeah it
bothers me a lot if you want
broadcasters you’re associating with
black people or Leona Helmsley’s comment
about taxes and little people
number ten competition with Africa Gina
Rinehart although she has this now
national profile as a mining magnate
that she has never in her own right
fully owned and operated a mine with a
net worth of eleven billion US dollars
in 2015 the chairperson of the privately
owned mineral and exploration company
Hancock prospecting is one of the
richest people in the world but wealth
doesn’t always equal generosity at least
not when you consider what Gina Rinehart
declared over YouTube with respect to
her views on how expensive it is to
employ Australians furthermore Africans
want to work and its workers are willing
to work for less than $2 per day such
statistics make me worried for this
country’s future her controversial 2012
comments for the sydney mining club
unsurprisingly drew backlash most
notably then Australian Prime Minister
Julia Gillard dismissed the statements
while then Deputy PM and Treasurer Wayne
Swan called them insulting to their
fellow Australian workers number nine
digital prick Don Mattrick I think
people are imagining outcomes that are
worse than what we believe it’s going to
be in the real world when the Xbox one
was initially released in 2013 the
president of Microsoft’s interactive
entertainment seemed pretty sure of
himself and it’s always on feature which
was complemented by a controversial
digital rights management system the
average internet connection
is working the majority of the day but
gamers didn’t quite buy this concept
they also didn’t appreciate Don Mattrick
dismissive attitude towards those
without 24/7 Internet access and so it
didn’t really come as a surprise that he
left the company shortly after making
this statement fortunately we have a
product for people who aren’t able to
get some form of connectivity it’s
called Xbox 360 number eight gummy bears
and cigarettes bad habits James J Morgan
relaxes your larynx does it not
cigarette smoking calms the nerves and
gives you confidence in the late 90s the
president of Philip Morris USA offered
up a unique correlation between candy
and cigarettes when he was questioned
about the hazards of tobacco and
secondhand smoke
basically he equated smoking with going
to the movies and tearing through an
entire bag of gummy bears that’s right
James J Morgan curiously noted the
following similarities between inhaling
actual smoke into your lungs from
cigarettes and consuming the sweet stuff
quote if they are behaviorally addictive
or habit-forming they are much more like
caffeine or in my case gummy bears call
us crazy but somehow cigarettes seem to
be a bit more problematic for the human
body roll oh yeah number seven the
Ratner effect
Gerald Ratner I certainly took a turn
for the worse after making that infamous
speech in 1991 when you become a monster
business magnate a certain sense of
invincibility can take over and may lead
you to blindly spew verbal diarrhea for
example take Gerald Ratner the former
chief executive of a jewelry company
called Ratner’s group Ratner took a
brutally honest approach to his business
by slamming his own products in a public
speech exactly how honest was he his
words were people say to me how can you
sell this for such a low price I say
because it’s total crap
this and further remarks along similar
lines led customers to shop elsewhere
Ratner’s company to tank and forced the
company’s new leader to dismiss Ratner
in 1992 what are you doing these days
mister and I said I’m back in the
jewelry business is it all crap I said
that’s a really good joke number six
Mexican criminals and rapists Donald
Trump if Donald Trump wasn’t already on
your what the hell radar prior to 2015
for his business ventures marriages and
or his time as a television personality
Kate you’re fired
he definitely made himself known to you
in June of that year with his
presidential campaign kickoff speech
when discussing illegal immigration
Trump declared quote when Mexico sends
its people they’re bringing drugs
they’re bringing crime they’re rapists
sure he ended it with some I assume are
good people but the damage had already
been done
aside from the public outrage the
controversial and politically incorrect
statements led several companies to
terminate their deals with Trump
including NBC and Univision which were
behind the apprentice and the Miss
Universe Organization people have to be
alerted to the fact that we are getting
some really bad characters coming into
this country
number five rented uterus is Domenico
Dolce some people are calling for a
boycott after the two designers made
inflammatory remarks about families who
give birth to children through in vitro
fertilization in case you are curious
the Italian fashion designer named
Domenico Dolce is not a fan of in vitro
fertilization so much so that in 2015 he
went on record with regard to his
beliefs about surrogate mothers the
statement didn’t especially please sir
Elton John who has children by IVF or
boost the sales of Dolce & Gabbana the
now infamous entrepreneur and one half
of the luxury fashion house stated in a
2015 magazine interview quote you are
born from a father and a mother or at
least that’s how it should be
for this reason I am not convinced by
what I call children of chemistry or
synthetic children uterus is for rent
sperm chosen from a catalogue such a
strong statement for such a seemingly
sweet guy I just found it
offensive to say that any child was
synthetic their own personal beliefs
about family of their own beliefs and I
respect them although I find it very sad
number four bad dog Doug Morris you know
how a puppy tilts its little head when
trying to understand human words well
imagine the collective confusion when
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris
demonstrated his complete lack of
business savvy when he tried to explain
how legal and illegal file sharing
disrupted the music industry rather than
acknowledging the power of technology he
just admitted that record people didn’t
understand such things and posed a
rather strange question quote it’s like
if you were suddenly asked to operate on
your dog to remove his kidney what would
you do good point Doug solid argument
number three everything John McAfee as I
said I’ve had nothing to do with McAfee
software for over 15 years I’ve had more
pressing things to do the URL to his own
personal website is who is McAfee com
and to be honest we’re not quite sure
let’s say this the words that come out
of this computer programmers mouth don’t
often fall in line with typical human
logic with him most notably stating that
using his own antivirus program is quote
too annoying it’s kind of hit or miss
with John McAfee John why are you going
maybe to jail for example his response
to being jailed in Guatemala after he
hacked into Belizian government
computers to clear his name was quote
this is what happens when you try and
address something that changes the
status quo of a political system you
better be prepared to be crucified well
yeah if they’re not after me then we
have a mass hallucination and we should
all commit ourselves number to feed the
world Peter Brabeck LaMotta do humans
have a public right to access water the
substance we are mostly made of if
you’re Peter Brabeck LaMotta the answer
apparently is no and you should take a
serious interest in the privatization of
water and proceed to give the world a
reality check the comments made by the
chairman of the Nestle group which
surfaced in the 2005 documentary we feed
the world were as follows
quote the one opinion which I think is
extreme is represented by the NGO
whoo bang on about declaring water a
public right that means that as a human
being you should have a right to water
that’s an extreme solution good luck
with that one and if we do not give a
value to the water those investments are
not going to be made because nobody has
an interest to invest because you don’t
have an economically return before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions I know it sounds
cruel but he’s going to do something he
should divorce her and start all over
again but you know to make sure she has
custodial care and somebody looking
after her there’s no one who wants this
thing over more than I do
you know I love my life back number one
Nostradamus
Steve Ballmer do we have any clipper
fans here I can’t hear you today he’s
the overly enthusiastic owner of the LA
Clippers a man who seemingly knows how
to connect but sometimes it seems that
perhaps Steve Ballmer just shouldn’t
talk for example how does a
harvard-educated CEO of Microsoft manage
to drastically underestimate one of the
most important modern innovations namely
the iPhone this is one device in 2007
Ballmer’s arrogance showed when he
talked with USA Today and said this
quote there’s no chance that the iPhone
is going to get any significant market
share no chance equally ridiculous was
Alan Sugar’s 2005 assertion that quote
next Christmas the iPod will be dead
finished gone kaput but it’s definitely
Ballmer statement that takes the cake we
were the number one most profitable
company our business for a long time two
guys have passed us and they both did it
by making phones Apple and Samsung so I
mean I don’t think the software was the
right play there do you agree with our
list
cuz it’s titled crap what business
leaders statement do you think is the
most outrageous how to hell can you vote
for this guy for more mind-blowing top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com but I
recognize the dilemma and the last thing
I do is condemn you for taking that kind
of action
you
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