NO-SWEAT EQUITY

“I woke up one morning and just lost the desire to come into work. I love this place; I’ve sweated for it and put all that I could into it. But the tank just ran dry.”

Longtime Yahoo executive Ellen Siminoff, on her resignation from the company after its sputtering market capitalization left her without shares to lavish on the likes of Mark Cuban, News.com, 16 November 2001