Business
- Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy
- John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems
- William Luke, businessman and entrepreneur
- George Preston Marshall, owner and president of the Washington Redskins
- William N. Page, civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist
- Milan Puskar, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of Mylan Inc.
- Alex Schoenbaum, founder of Shoney's restaurant chain
- Harry F. Sinclair, industrialist
- Ellsworth Milton Statler, hotel businessman
- Rod Thorn, president of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers
- Clarence Wayland Watson, businessman
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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)
“Boxing is just show business with blood.”
—Frank Bruno (b. 1961)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)