Perhaps most important, the author says, narcissistic managers are obsessed with that ultimate trophy, profit.

The Plaza is the ultimate trophy in the world.

Mr. Trump is fond of calling the Plaza Hotel, which he bought nearly two years ago, "the ultimate trophy in the world."

Once, he would have viewed Khira as the ultimate trophy for the last of the Ramseys-a difficult quarry to be hunted down, staked, beheaded.

Cholmondeley then set his sights on the ultimate trophy, the head of Optimus Prime.

A woman who has been wife to three kings and is famed for her beauty is surely the ultimate trophy.

In the heady days of the late 1980's, Mr. Trump proclaimed the Plaza "the ultimate trophy in the world."

Clearly, the celebrities and CEOs who have fallen in love with the island since it was developed in the Fifties view their homes there as the ultimate trophy.

Supposedly, it describes an Asian skin tone that is neither dark nor fair - but lighter skin has always been the ultimate trophy.

Knowing its history of fashion and glamour, he called the hotel "the ultimate trophy."