Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox sang 'Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves' way back in the '80s, and this piece of pop wisdom is holding true for ladies in the new millenium. The Huffington Post just released a list of the Top Ten CEOs who came up from nothing to make it into the realms of the über-rich -- and the extremely powerful. And, it is quite an achievement that two of the ten featured are African American women. Oprah Winfrey and the relatively new CEO of Xerox, Ursula Burns, are prominent members of the club of "rags-to-riches" CEOs:
1. Lloyd Blankfein, CEO And Chairman, Goldman Sachs
2. Larry Ellison, Oracle Co-Founder and CEO
3. Ursula Burns, Xerox CEO
4. John Paul Dejoria, Co-founder and CEO of John Paul Mitchell
5. Oprah Winfrey, Media Mogul
6. Sheldon Adelson, CEO and Chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp
7. Howard Schultz, Starbucks Chairman and CEO
8. Guy Laliberte, Cirque Du Soleil Founder and CEO
9. Roman Abramovich, Oil Tycoon and Owner of Chelsea FC
10. Li Ka- Shing, Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings
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