Business
- Henry Bloch, of Bohemian ancestry, with his brother Richard Bloch, co-founded the H&R Block Co., a tax preparation company in the US, claiming more than 22 million customers worldwide, with offices in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Their grandfather, Adolf Bloch, was born in Janovice nad Uhlavou in Bohemia.
- Joseph Bulova, arrived in New York from Bohemia in 1870 at the age of 19. Opened a jewelry store, J. Bulova, in Lower Manhattan. Bulova Watch Company became an iconic American watch and clockmaking company.
- Richard N. Cabela, of Czech ancestry, an entrepreneur, known as a founder in 1961 of Cabela's one of the world's leading outfitters of outdoor sporting and recreational goods.
- Charles Louis Fleischmann, a Moravia-born innovative manufacturer of yeast and other consumer food products during the 19th Century; founder of the Fleischmann Yeast Co.
- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald Empire
- Estée Lauder, of Bohemian father, founder of Estée Lauder Companies, a pioneering cosmetics company.
- Sigmund Mandl, Czech immigrant, founded Husky Wrench Company in Wisconsin in 1924.
- Frank Vlchek, Czech immigrant, started out with a small blacksmith shop in Cleveland that grew into Vlcheck Tool Co. that went on to become the largest automotive hand-tool manufacturer and a pioneer in plastics technology.
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to’t with delight.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“I do not claim that all women, or a large portion of them, should enter into independent business relations with the world, but I do claim that all women should cultivate and respect in themselves an ability to make money.”
—Ellen Demarest (1824–1898)