As for the world's largest company, for the most part it's a meaningless position that bestows nothing other than an ego massage for the people running it.
"Alone in the world, we have given nothing to the world, learned nothing from the world and bestowed not a single idea upon the fund of human ideas," he wrote.
Lan Samantha Chang bestowed on readers All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, a slender but evocative novel about the education of an American poet and the toils of art and life.
Robert Lee Chatham, the eight-year-old protagonist of Cheng's dark, lyrical début novel, survives the disaster only to be cast adrift, clutching nothing but a stone bestowed by an ominous bluesman.
For most of last century, the European Grand Prix was nothing but an honorific title bestowed occasionally on national Grand Prix races, starting with the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1923 and ending with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1977.
Lastly, it's going to take a herculean effort to enact any reforms over the opposition of mega-moneyed interests who will stop at nothing to protect the advantages bestowed on them by the current system.
There is nothing to add to the accolades bestowed on Sunday morning's extraordinary drama from Sydney but Premier Sports viewers were also treated to the two curtain-raisers from the Olympic Stadium.
And most nation building involved U.S.-financed projects bestowed as gifts on Afghans who "became accustomed to receiving something for nothing, and giving nothing in return," West observed after returning from several extended reporting trips in Afghanistan.
Rousey wanted nothing to do with the title that had been bestowed upon her in December of last year.
The grateful person recognizes that he or she did nothing to deserve the gift or benefit; it was freely bestowed". Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions.
