Man:
Jimmy Carter. Having worked with Habitat For Humanity, a great, highly underrated organization, I got to meet him at one time and it was great to see this guy out there at 6am with everyone else, hammer in hand, ready to pitch in and help. Here's a guy who's more than just pointless windbag rhetoric and posturing, here is someone who actually puts things into motion and then sees them through, not just play lip service to them.
Woman:
Madonna. While I'm not a fan of her music, the power she weilds in the music industry is unheard of for a female. She took Maverick Records and it's spinoffs and made them all highly successful. Her movie choices haven't been the best, but she is an amazing business person. She catches flack for being "a slut" but you don't accomplish what she did just by being a slut, you have to have a set of balls too. Here is a woman who, both as an artist and businesswoman, constantly adapts and re-invents herself, never getting stale.
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