Business
- Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P.
- Amar Bose, inventor
- Safra A. Catz, President of Oracle Corporation
- Al Davis, former owner of the Oakland Raiders (deceased 2011)
- Elias Hasket Derby, Reportedly America's first millionaire
- William Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet
- John Wesley Emerson, founder of the Emerson Electric Company
- Aaron Feuerstein, inventor
- Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix
- Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.
- Howard Deering Johnson, founder of the Howard Johnson's chain
- Leo Kahn, co-founder of Staples Inc.
- Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
- Sumner Redstone, entertainment mogul
- Henry Huttleston Rogers, industrialist
- Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric 1981-2001
- Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“I’m afraid, Mr. Goldwyn, that we shall not ever be able to do business together. You see, you’re an artist, and care only about art, while I’m only a tradesman and care only about money.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense.... He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)