Business
- Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur
- Liliane Bettencourt, cosmetics, one of the richest persons in Europe
- Marcel Bich (1914–1994), Bic pens
- Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering
- Marcel Boussac, textiles, fashion, newspapers, race horse breeding
- Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), automobile manufacturer
- André Citroën (1878–1935), automobile manufacturer
- Adolphe Clément-Bayard (1855–1928) entrepreneur manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aviation
- Alexandre Darracq (1855–1931), automotive pioneer
- Louis Delâge (1874–1947) automotive pioneer
- Émile Delahaye (1843–1905), automotive pioneer
- Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932), agricultural commodities
- Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771–1834), founder of DuPont
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), entrepreneur
- Jacques Foccart (19..–1997), import-export
- Léon Gaumont, pioneer film inventor
- Paul-Louis Halley (1934–2004), supermarket tycoon
- Max Hymans (1900–1961), aviation
- Jean-Marie Messier (born 1957), former Vivendi CEO
- Gérard Mestrallet (born 1949), Chairman and CEO of Suez
- Gérard Mulliez, entrepreneur (Auchan, Decathlon, Flunch...), whose family is considered as one of the richest in Europe
- Charles Pathé, pioneer of film industry
- Armand Peugeot (1849–1915) automobile manufacturer
- François Pinault (born 1936), entrepreneur
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (1726–1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of the American Revolution"
- Marcel Renault (1872–1903), automobile manufacturer
- James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), banker
- Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), wine maker
- Eugène Schueller (1881–1954), founder of L'Oréal
- Bernard Tapie (born 1943), entrepreneur
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Faces, suddenly suspended above you;
faces that you think it’s your business to love
if only you could remember their names.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)