Business
- John Jacob Astor, fur trader, company founder
- Nicholas F. Brady, former CEO of Dillon Read, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- C. Douglas Dillon, former CEO of Dillon Read, US Ambassador to France (1953–1957), 57th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- George Eastman (1854–1932), founder of Eastman Kodak
- Joseph Ellicott (1760–1826), surveyor and city planner
- William G. Fargo (1818–1881), co-founder of American Express Company and Wells Fargo, mayor of Buffalo
- Debra Fox Founder of Fox Learning Systems
- E.H. Harriman errand boy, broker, railroader
- George A. Hormel (1860–1946), founder of Hormel
- Jeremy Jacobs (1940-), owner of Delaware North and the Boston Bruins
- Seymour H. Knox I (1861–1915), businessman, co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
- Seymour H. Knox II (1898–1990), former director of (Marine Midland Bank), philanthropist
- John J. Kennedy (1857–1914), financier, 45th New York State Treasurer
- Jon L. Luther, food service executive
- Sherman J. Maisel (1918–2010), economist
- J.P. Morgan, banker, co-founder of J.P. Morgan & Co.
- Jeremiah Milbank, banker, co-founder Borden Milk Co. 1857
- Jacquelyn Ottman, marketing consultant
- Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Joseph R. Perella, financier
- Robert E. Rich, Sr. (1913–2006), inventor, foodservice executive
- Donald Regan, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), founder of Standard Oil, philanthropist
- Robert Rubin, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Jacob Schiff Wall Street executive, banker
- Ellsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), hotelier
- Earl Reginald Stevenson (1958-), Colonel Aide De Camp to Governors of Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and New Mexico
- Donald Trump (1946–), entrepreneur
- Cornelius Vanderbilt, ferry & tug boat captain, company founder, railroader
- Sanford Weill, former CEO of Citigroup
- Henry Wells (1805–1878), businessman
- John G. Wickser (1858–1928), businessman, New York State Treasurer (1903–1904)
- Robert G. Wilmers (1935-), CEO of M&T Bank
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“Theres no business like show business.”
—Irving Berlin (18881989)
“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 (18941963)