Business
- Marcellus Bailey – patent attorney for Alexander Graham Bell
- Powel Crosley, Jr. – inventor and entrepreneur
- Francis L. Dale – lawyer, Cincinnati Reds owner, Republican Party operative
- Maxwell Dane – advertising executive
- William Edenborn – industrialist and inventor, lived in Cincinnati in the latter 1860s
- James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- Alfred T. Goshorn – businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team
- Louise McCarren Herring – leader of the credit union movement
- Jeffrey R. Immelt – CEO of General Electric
- Charles Keating – banker, involved in savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
- Bernard Kroger – founder of the Kroger supermarket chain
- Isaac Herbert Kempner – founder of Imperial Sugar
- Carl Lindner, Jr. – businessman and co-founder of United Dairy Farmers and founder of American Financial Group
- William F. Nast – diplomat, railroad businessman
- Henry Nicholas – communications technology entrepreneur
- Stephen Sanger – former chairman of General Mills
- Marge Schott – women's business pioneer and former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- David Sinton – pig iron industrialist
- Ted Turner – founder of Turner Broadcasting System
- Douglas A. Warner III – banker
- Granville Woods – African American inventor
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“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)