Business
- Henry W. Bloch (born 1922), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
- Richard Bloch (1926–2004), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
- Adolphus Busch (1839–1913) Founder of Anheuser-Busch (the world's largest brewer)
- William H. Danforth (1870–1955), Founder of Ralston Purina Company
- John Doerr (born 1951), venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), Civil engineer and inventor
- Charles Eames (1907–1978), designer and architect
- David Glass (born 1935), former President and CEO of Wal-Mart, owner of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Joyce Hall, (1891–1982), founder of Hallmark Cards.
- William Preston Hall (1864–1932), Circus empresario and animal broker.
- John Q. Hammons, hotel enterprizer
- Howard R. Hughes, Sr., (1869–1924), Oil drill bit and tool inventor, father of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
- George M. Keller (1923–2008), chairman of Standard Oil Company of California in the 1980s
- R. Crosby Kemper Jr. (born 1927), Chairman emeritus UMB Financial Corporation, philanthopist
- William Thornton Kemper, Sr. (1866–1938), patriarch of Kemper family railroad and banking empire which included Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank
- Ewing Kauffman, (1916–1993), Pharmaceutical magnate, philanthropist and founder of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (born 1954), former head of Enron International
- N. O. Nelson (1844–1922), founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company.
- Thomas F. O'Neil, former chairman of RKO General studios who brought movies to television
- J. C. Penney (1875–1971), businessman and entrepreneur
- John Sperling (born 1921), businessman and founder of the University of Phoenix
- Gerard Swope (1872–1957), president of General Electric
- Jack C. Taylor (born 1923), founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, billionaire philanthropist
- Sam Walton (1918–1992), founder of Wal-Mart
- Peter Youree (1843–1914), businessman in Shreveport, Louisiana; built first skyscraper there.
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,—chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)