Business
- Adolphus Herbert Frederick Norman Appleroth (1886–1952), founder of Aeroplane Jelly
- Frederick Clissold: businessman and wealthiest citizen of Ashfield municipality in late 19th century; co-founder of Canterbury Park Racecourse; owned Glentworth mansion in Ashfield
- Joseph Grace (1859–1931), founder of Grace Brothers department stores; lived at Yasmar in Haberfield
- John Goodlet (1835–1914): timber merchant and philanthropist who established the Goodlet Institute in Ashfield
- Anthony Hordern (1819–1876): Shopping magnate who built and lived at Shubra Hall, now part of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon
- Richard Stanton (1862–1943): Developer of Haberfield who also lived there for many years
- Mei Quong Tart (1850–1903): Prominent Sydney businessman, tea house owner and acting consul to Imperial Chinese government in late 19th century; lived in Gallop House at 48 Arthur Street
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Faultless honesty is a sine qua non of business life. Not alone the honesty according to the moral code and the Bible. When I speak of honesty I refer to the small, hidden, evasive meannesses of our natures. I speak of the honesty of ourselves to ourselves.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)