Business
- Thomas Cook (travel agent)
- Nathaniel Corah (textile manufacturer)
- Henry Curry (Founder of Currys)
- Thomas Fielding Johnson {worsted spinner, philanthropist, founding benefactor of Leicester University}
- Charles Bennion (shoe machinery manufacturer, philanthropist, bought Bradgate Park for the `quiet enjoyment of the people of Leicestershire')
- Thomas White (merchant, philanthropist)
- William Inman (shipping company owner)
- Henry Walker (founder of Walkers Crisps)
- William Wyggeston (merchant, philanthropist)
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines.... What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these,—but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust,—some of them suicides.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... hurled religiously
Upon your business of humility
Into the iron forestries of hell....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)