Business
- William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers
- William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman
- William E. Cooper (civic leader) (1921–2008), prominent businessman in Dallas, Texas
- William W. Cooper (1914–2012), management scientist
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith’s.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)