Kevin Walmsley

The World's 10 Most Influential and Innovative Companies

How did they manage to ignore General Motors, Chrysler, and AIG? AAPL will remain influential only so long as they keep making cool stuff. But companies that are so innovative that they lose money in every single economic environment can zip up to Washington, and the geriatric ward that masquerades as the United States Congress will crawl over broken glass to give them blank checks, to be paid in higher taxes and inflation, by me.

THAT is influence.