Warren Buffett famously doesn't make a lot of money at Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B 1.05% ) with total compensation at $447,000 in 2012 (down 14% from the year before), but the conglomerate still has am enviable track record of outsized performance. Similarly, John Mackey at Whole Foods Market ( WFM ) is able to get by on less than $70,000 a year, and though his co-CEO, Walter Robb, does considerably better with under $1.3 million, it remains a pauper's pay in comparison with Lloyd Blankfein's $21 million pay package Goldman Sachs, up 75% from the $12 million he earned in 2011.