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.
Read more about this topic: List Of Refugees
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I’m in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know it can be done. I know the impossible can become possible.”
—Marcia Wallace (b. 1942)