Business
- Michael Marks - one of the founders of Marks and Spencer. He was a Russian refugee.
- Sir Montague Burton - A refugee from Lithuania, he founded Burton retail.
- Manubhai Madhvani - expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin
- Sieng van Tran - founder of the educational website www.iLearn.to. He is a Vietnamese refugee
- Sir John Houblon - grandson of refugees. He was the first Governor of the Bank of England
- Aristotle Onassis - Richest Man in the World, Greek Refugee from Asia Minor
- Ismail Kadare - He fled Albania in 1990 for political reasons.
- George Weidenfeld, publisher - Jew who fled the Nazis.
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“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)