Business
- Clay Bennett, Chairman of Dorchester Capital, Professional Basketball LLC, owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder
- Edward K. Gaylord (1873–1974), Founder of the Daily Oklahoman
- Edward L. Gaylord (1919–2003), late Editor of the Daily Oklahoman, founder of TNN & CMT, owner of Grand Ole Opry
- Sylvan Goldman (1898–1984), Businessman and inventor of the shopping cart
- J. M. Hall (1851–1935), Merchant and pioneer of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- George Kaiser, chairman of BOK Financial Corporation
- Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Sam P. McBirney (1877–1936), founder and vice president National Bank of Commerce in Tulsa
- Neal Patterson (born 1950), CEO of the Cerner Corporation and owner of the Sporting Kansas City soccer team
- Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oil industry businessman
- T. Boone Pickens, Jr. (born 1928), oil industry businessman
- William Skelly (1878–1957), Founder of Skelly Oil Company and Spartan School of Aeronautics
- Helen Walton (1919–2007), wife of Sam Walton, and one-time richest woman of the world
- Sam Walton (1918–1992), founder of Wal-Mart
- Tom L. Ward, oil industry businessman
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”
—Grace Paley (b. 1922)
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)