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:
“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)