10 Greatest Living Business Leaders

Brad Smith, Intuit,

Brad D. Smith is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a corporate director of Intuit and a member of the board of directors at Yahoo!  Intuit is considered as one of the world’s largest and most successful financial software companies and the maker of the QuickBooks accounting software. Being a company of nearly $4 billion in revenue with a market cap of approximately $16.5 billion, Intuit maintains to operate like a collection of startups. Brad has promoted a culture where nearly 8,000 employees are acceptable to take risks and to mature by learning from success and failure.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks

Howard Mark Schultz is best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $1.5 billion. The head of Starbucks is a complete illustration of guts, hard work, and the ability to achieve the American dream. Even though glowing with successes, Howard is also fascinated in investing in others’ success and continues to invest actively in other business ventures, such as eBay.