Business
- J. Paul Raines (Georgia Tech,1985): CEO of GameStop.
- Dick Costolo (Michigan,1985): CEO of Twitter.
- Jerry S. Rawls (Texas Tech, ): President and CEO of Finisar.
- John Gottschalk (Nebraska, 1965): CEO and Publisher of the Omaha World-Herald; President of the Boy Scouts of America.
- William Adolphus Graham IV (Bucknell, 1962): Chairman and CEO of the Graham Company and a Bucknell University trustee.
- Jess Jackson (California, 1952): Billionaire wine entrepreneur; namesake of Kendall-Jackson winery and majority owner of Curlin: the 2007 Preakness Stakes winner, 2007 Belmont Stakes second place finisher, and 2007 Kentucky Derby third place finisher.
- Philip H. Knight (Oregon, 1959): Co-Founder, Owner & President, Nike Corporation; billionaire
- Josiah K. Lilly, III (Cornell, 1939): Philanthropist; Lilly Endowment and heir to Eli Lilly and Company.
- Edmund C. Lynch (Johns Hopkins University, 1907) A founder of Merrill Lynch investment company.
- Patrick McGovern (MIT, 1959): Chairman of the Board, International Data Group; founder of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research; billionaire
- Robert C. Pohlad (Arizona State, 1976): CEO of PepsiAmericas.
- Donald J. Rippert (Virginia, 1981): CTO of Accenture
- John A. "Jack" Rodgers (Kansas, 1953): Sr. Vice President (retired), Starbucks Coffee
- Tom Ryan (Rhode Island, 1975): President and CEO, CVS
- Chet Upham (Texas, 1945): Founder of Upham Oil and Gas in Mineral Wells, Texas, and former state Republican chairman
- Alfred J. Verrecchia (Rhode Island, 1965): President of Global Operations & Chief Operating Officer, Hasbro Inc.
- Fritz Henderson (Michigan, 1980): President and CEO of General Motors
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“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)