The 19 Biggest Loose Cannon CEOs

Many CEOs carefully cultivate a quiet and considered public image, limiting contact to quarterly earnings calls or the occasional carefully-considered interview.

Then there are the others. The ones who make headlines with outbursts on politics, about their competitors, or even against an entire country's work ethic.

At best, these incidents are distracting. At worst, they hurt a companies reputation and lose them customers. We identified the biggest loose cannons at major companies who can't seem to stay out of the news.