Business
- Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954) – businessman; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs (since 2006)
- Eli Broad (born 1933) – businessman and arts philanthropist; co-founder Kaufman & Broad
- B. Gerald Cantor (1916–1996) – businessman; cofounder of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald, who with his wife Iris, amassed and then donated nationally the largest private collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
- Millard "Mickey" Drexler" (born 1944) – businessman; chief executive officer of J. Crew; former chief executive officer of the Gap
- Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010) – businessperson; proprietor of Elaine's, a restaurant in the Manhattan borough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians
- Harry Helmsley (1909–1997) – real estate magnate in New York City
- Roger Hertog – cofounder of investment firm, co-publisher of The New Republic magazine; philanthropist
- Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900) – railroad and shipbuilding magnate, who created the privately endowed Huntington Free Library and Reading Room near his summer home in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx
- Calvin Klein (born 1942) – clothing designer
- Ralph Lauren (born 1939) – clothing designer
- Reuben and Rose Mattus (1912–1994; 1916–2006) – founders of Häagen-Dazs ice cream
- Mark Penn (born 1954) – chief executive officer of the public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller and president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
- Sol Price (1916–2009) – founder of the Price Club and FedMart retail stores
- Robert Stock – owner and designer of Robert Graham menswear; former designer of Chaps Jeans
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“My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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