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:
“The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)