But he has a clear advantage over Booker T: he supposedly performed miracles, including walking on the water after the French had put him on a ship to send him into exile.

ECONOMIST: African immigrants

"If I could do it again, I would tone the water stuff down some buyers who looked at the house didn't like the feeling that they were walking on water, " says Mr. McKinney.

WSJ: A River Runs Through��the Home

Talented people may think that their brainpower allows them to walk upon water, but in reality many are walking on the stones that their employers have conveniently placed beneath them.

ECONOMIST: Masters of the universe