Business
- James E. Thompson (born 1940), founder, chairman and chief executive of The Crown Worldwide Group
- James Pyke Thompson (1846–1897), English corn merchant and philanthropist
- James Walter Thompson (1847–1928), American advertiser and namesake of the JWT advertising agency
- Jim Thompson (designer) (born 1906), revived the Thai silk industry
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The business of America is business.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,—chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman’s life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)