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The greatest executricksters of all time

Today's BlackBerry-wielding, expense-account impresario may think he's invented the concept of retiring at work. But such executricks have been around as long as people have labored at tasks they'd rather not perform. Following are some of the greats in the pantheon of tricksters.

By Stanley Bing
Ulysses S. Grant, <br> General and President
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Ulysses S. Grant,
General and President
Carefully cultivated an image as a heavy-drinking dullard when he was in fact a subtle, inventive executive with a keen eye for fatuity and hypocrisy in all its forms. Excellent writer and thinker, somewhat overmatched by the job of the presidency, but who wasn't? Or isn't to this day?
Last updated July 24 2008: 3:43 PM ET

Tiberius Caesar
Cleopatra
Benjamin Franklin
Queen Victoria
Ulysses S. Grant
Winston Churchill
Dean Martin
Ronald Reagan
Arnold Palmer
William Jefferson Clinton
Madonna
Stanley O'Neal
Yoda

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The central question of every hardworking person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy an expensive bottle of wine without trembling. The answer is simple: Retire while still working! (more)
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