The wild, chest beating machismo of many of the 49ers and Ravens players is certainly not evident in the corporate world, but make no mistake, deep down in every great business person is similar passion- though it will express itself in more sedate ways.

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Witness Winston Churchill who certainly did not make World War II happen, but he approached it on his front foot.

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Winning a World Cup may not have changed Greenwood, but it certainly changed the face of English rugby.

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This is not popular with the rest of the world but it is certainly proving popular on the Tokyo stock exchange where shares are booming.

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The newspapers predicted he would lift the economic gloom by guiding the national team to glory in the World Cup - not as winners, of course, but certainly as qualifiers for the second round.

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And they think a lot about how life affects them, and you know, they're not philosophers, but certainly they are being forced to think about it, because as I said before, their world has been changed.

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His league did manage to avoid any real ramifications from the lockout and is pulling in more TV and new media money for the NFL than any sport has ever gotten for anything maybe not on a per-event basis but certainly per year, the NFL is more profitable than the Olympics or World Cup.

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