Business
- Thomas Cook (travel agent)
- Nathaniel Corah (textile manufacturer)
- Henry Curry (Founder of Currys)
- Thomas Fielding Johnson {worsted spinner, philanthropist, founding benefactor of Leicester University}
- Charles Bennion (shoe machinery manufacturer, philanthropist, bought Bradgate Park for the `quiet enjoyment of the people of Leicestershire')
- Thomas White (merchant, philanthropist)
- William Inman (shipping company owner)
- Henry Walker (founder of Walkers Crisps)
- William Wyggeston (merchant, philanthropist)
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)