I didn't say personally. I said I know OF them.

Retired? It depends on how retirement is defined. I personally know school teachers that retired then ran for office.

>Personally?
>Which of these retired?
>
>>I know of several.
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>>- Jim McNerny at 3M. Left to be CEO at Boeing. His background was airlines.
>>- Andy Grove at Intel (due to illness).
>>- The CEO of NPR here in the US just resigned to run National Geographic.
>>- Michael Bloomberg left the company he founded run for mayor of New York City
>>- Mitt Romney
>>- Meg Whitman left EBay to run for Governor of California
>>- Hank Paulson left Goldman Sachs to be US Secretary of Treasury
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>>>Unfortunately, there's no fact you can get for sure from this kind of situation.
>>>
>>>What I know for sure is how friends of mine had to leave their top management positions in large corporation; I never knew of a single example where they resigned by their only own will.