Business
- Richard Adams - (St John's) - pioneer of Fair Trade and founder of Traidcraft
- Adam Applegarth - Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Rock bank
- Stephen Bicknell - leading British organ builder and writer about the organ.
- E. C. B. Corlett - naval architect and consultant, pivotal in the restoration of the SS Great Britain
- Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart - head of Old Master Paintings, at Christie's, New York
- Leslie Ferrar - Treasurer to Charles, Prince of Wales
- David French - Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
- Paul Hawkins - inventor of the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system used in cricket, tennis and other sports
- Dame Elisabeth Hoodless (King's) - Executive Director of Community Service Volunteers
- Tom Hume (King's) - First Director of the Museum of London
- Julian Knight - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of climate change campaign Global Cool.
- Sir Robert Malpas - engineer and industrialist
- Ian Marchant - Chief executive officer of SSE plc
- Sir Peter Ogden - Co-founder of Computacenter
- Sir Nick Scheele (Cuths) - President and Chief Operating Officer of the Ford Motor Company
- Tim Smit - horticulturalist and creator of the Eden Project
- David Sproxton (Collingwood) - co-founder (together with Peter Lord) of the Aardman Animations
- David Walton, (Van Mildert) - economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
- Michael Warrender, 3rd Baron Bruntisfield - director of Jardine Fleming Investment Management and Atlas Capital
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”
—William Penn (1644–1718)