The purpose of life is to live, taste experiences to the utmost and to bravely and eagerly reach out for newer and richer experiences. Every individual is an amalgam of good and bad habits. “It is wisely said, watch your thoughts for they become words, watch your words for they become actions and watch your actions for they become habits.” The entrepreneurs we come across daily via newspapers or other media sources usually have plenty of money. Naturally, they indulge into some extra and unusual habits. Here’s a list of top 11 CEOs and entrepreneurs who have strange and unusual hobbies.
1. Walt Disney
Walt Disney is an American animation entrepreneur, voice actor and film producer. Disneyland is the perfect evidence of Walt Disney’s love towards model trains. We have seen so many trains in Disneyland. Besides that Disney has a huge model train setup in his office area and a miniature steam train in his backyard.
2. Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. His famous inventions include telegraph, light bulb, etc. Apart from this, as his wife quotes, “correct eating is one of his greatest hobbies”. He had also fixed his only drink as pint milk which he used to have at an interval of every three hours.
3. Sandy Lerner
Sandy Lerner is an American businesswoman cum philanthropist and co-founder of Cisco systems. She is a big fan of jousting. She is the owner of an 800 acre farm in Virginia and also has a room full of lances and period costumes. She has even raised shire horses for just this purpose.
4. Mark Zuckerberg
The founder of world’s most popular social media platform likes to kill animals or should we say hunt and prepare his own meal. He does so in order to understand where his food comes from and to check the efforts put in consuming it. Mark Zuckerberg’s first kill was officially a lobster which he claims was an “emotional kill.”
5. Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffet is an American business magnet, a successful investor and a philanthropist. He is a music lover. He plays and teaches ukulele at the Fruit of the Loom in Omaha. He has given away many of his instruments to the clubs and has auctioned some of them as collector’s items at $11K.
6. Richard Branson
Richard is a traveler at heart like most of us. But he takes this desire to another level. He is always on the look out for creative ways to make every experience extreme. He has attempted many things to break several world records. One of his many attempts was to circle the globe in a hot-air balloon without a single stop although he failed at it somehow. Another was to cross the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle in approximately 1 hour 40 minutes. An year after that, he became world’s first man to cross the English Channel in a hot-air balloon.
7. Larry Ellison
Lawrence Ellison is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. He is fiercely in love with racing yachts. He learnt sailing in the year 1960 in the University of California. He is the owner of world’s biggest yachts and has been a part of many yacht races. He has won Maxi World Championship five times and also the America’s Cup.
8. Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is currently funding the construction of 10,000 year clock in New Mexico. It would be huge enough to estimate how small an individual’s life is. This is a humble step taken to make people feel wonderful about their existence.
9. Anil Ambani
Reliance’s CEO always had a problem of being overweight. People around him would urge him to run and take control of his body weight. He started to run in the streets of Mumbai along with his bodyguards. He wanted to run a marathon in Boston so he got trained for it. Now, he is an active marathon runner and has run many times since then.
10. Jeff Taylor
Jeff Taylor is the founder of monster.com and has always been called the eccentric CEO. He is the world record holder of longest distance water skiing behind a blimp. Richard Branson was the record holder before him but Jeff has given him a good beat.
11. Mike Zafirovski
Former Motorola CEO Mike Zafirovski is always on the look out for proving his mettle. He took on a CEO challenge to do so: he completed an Ironman triathlon (2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike, and a marathon run) within a time period of 13 hours and 37 minutes. The very next day, he started working at Motorola!
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Ankita Rathore
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