Aspirations

An excerpt from the book DisneyWar:

In 1988 he (Michael Eisner) was paid his salary of $750,000, a bonus of $6.8 million (2 percent of the profits over $100 million), and he earned $32.6 million by exercising some of his stock options (he had an unrealized profit of $50.5 million on the rest of his options.) His total income of just over $40 million that year made him the highest paid executive in America.