| 1. Steve Jobs Chairman and CEO, Apple 
Five industries that Jobs has upended - computers, Hollywood , music, retailing, and wireless phones. 2. Rupert Murdoch Chairman and CEO, News Corp. 
In Britain he owns the biggest tabloid, the Sun, and in the U.S. the New York Post and his Fox News Network are known for their take-no-prisoners attitude. 3. Lloyd Blankfein Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs 
CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who took over last spring, gets credit for helping steer Goldman away from the most damaging investments. 4. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergei Brin CEO; President, Products; President, Technology; Google 
They've been willing to build (AdWords, their search-based advertising service) as well as buy (YouTube). And they've defied critics who said they couldn't operate their company for the long term. 5. Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 
People everywhere listen to his pronouncements on things like managed earnings (against), stock option expensing (for), and the U.S. dollar (pessimistic) . 6. Rex Tillerson Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil 
Exxon Mobil gets high marks for the quality of its operations, and its stock has out-distanced the S&P 500 on Tillerson's watch. 7. Bill Gates Founder, chairman of Microsoft; founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 
Gates is expected to retire from Microsoft next year and devote most of his time to the foundation, which has an endowment of $33 billion. 8. Jeff Immelt Chairman and CEO, GE 
General Electric's chief executive is powerful for many reasons, but here's one that's often overlooked: the company's AAA credit rating. 9. Katsuaki Watanabe President, Toyota 
His ultimate goal: a car that can drive across the U.S. on a single tank of gas. 10. A.G. Lafley Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble 
P&G now boasts 23 billion-dollar brands, including Tide, Crest, Pampers, Gillette, Olay, Pantene, and the latest addition, Gain laundry detergent. 11. John Chambers Chairman and CEO, Cisco 
Everywhere he goes he makes converts to the Internet. 12. Li Ka-shing Chairman, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa 
Li's empire includes the world's biggest ports company and the world's largest provider of 3G mobile-phone services, plus holdings in shipping, property, retailing, and energy. 13. Lee Scott CEO, Wal-Mart 
About one of every ten non-auto retail dollars in the U.S. is spent at a Wal- Mart. 14. Lakshmi Mittal 
His company is three times the size of its nearest competitor, and Mittal has become a symbol of globalization. With operations in more than 60 countries, 320,000 employees - and a personal fortune of more than $40 billion. 15. Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Chase 
Dimon has always shown a mastery of risk management. From 1975 to 1998 he was Sandy Weill's partner in creating the world's biggest financial services firm, Citigroup 16. Mark Hurd Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard 
In its most recent results, net earnings rose 28% on revenue growth of 15% - and the company is so bullish that it ordered an $8 billion buyback. 17. James McNerney Chairman and CEO, Boeing 
Boeing has made about 75% of the world's commercial airplane fleet. The company is also a huge defense contractor, turning out a broad range of fighters, bombers, missiles, satellites, and a bunch of other stuff they could tell you about - but then they'd have to kill you. 18. Marius Kloppers CEO, BHP Billiton 
BHP produces, in vast quantities, industrial staples like iron ore, copper, coal, nickel, uranium, oil, gas, and aluminum. 19. Steve Schwarzman CEO, Blackstone 
His firm has nearly $100 billion in assets under management - private equity, hedge funds, real estate. 20. Carlos Slim Chair, TelMex and Carso Foundation 
In his home country, Mexico , Slim's TelMex controls more than 90% of the phone connections. 22. Indra Nooyi Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo 
Annual net income more than doubled to $5.6 billion in the five years that ended last year, and the stock price increased 68% over the same period. 23. Ratan Tata Chairman, Tata Group 
His heart is set on a project closer to home: creating a $2,500 car that middle-class Indians can buy. 24. Bob Iger CEO, Walt Disney 
The company's profit-spinning media brands, led by ESPN, include the likes of "Pirates of the Caribbean ," Pixar's "Ratatouille," "Hannah Montana," and the cheerfully unavoidable "High School Musical." 25. Bernard Arnault Chairman and CEO, LVMH 
The $19 billion company, in which he's also controlling shareholder, boasts more than 60 brands, including the eponymous Louis Vuitton, as well as Marc Jacobs, Dom Pérignon, and beauty chain Sephora. | 
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