Business
- George Addes (1911–1990), founder of United Auto Workers (La Crosse)
- Edward P. Allis (1824–1899), co-founder of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company (Two Rivers, Milwaukee)
- Carol Bartz (1948–), President and CEO of Yahoo! (Alma)
- Ernest J. Briskey (1930–2006), Vice President, Technical and Administration of Campbell Soup Company (Waunakee)
- Jerome Case (1819–1891), founder of an agricultural and construction equipment company (Racine)
- Leo Crowley (1889–1972), banker & FDIC director (Milton)
- John Cudahy (1887–1943), industrialist (Milwaukee)
- Michael Cudahy (born 1924), entrepreneur (Milwaukee)
- Alexander M. Cutler, CEO of the Eaton Corporation (Milwaukee)
- Arthur Davidson, Walter Davidson, and William A. Davidson, co-founders of Harley-Davidson
- Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), oil tycoon (Fond du Lac)
- Ole Evinrude (1877–1924), inventor and entrepreneur (Cambridge, Madison, Milwaukee)
- Bob Galvin (1922–2011), CEO of Motorola (Marshfield)
- Chris Gardner (born 1954), entrepreneur, subject of movie The Pursuit of Happyness (Milwaukee)
- King C. Gillette (1855–1932), industrialist (Fond du Lac)
- Donald Goerke (1926–2010), Campbell Soup Company executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs (Waukesha)
- William S. Harley (1880–1943), co-founder of Harley-Davidson (Milwaukee)
- Randolph E. Haugan (1902–1985), editor and publisher (Martell)
- Ken Hendricks (1941–2007), billionaire (Janesville, Beloit, Afton)
- Jay L. Johnson, CEO of General Dynamics (West Salem)
- Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr. (1833–1919), founder of consumer products company (Racine)
- Phil Katz (1962–2000), computer programmer (Glendale)
- Carl Kiekhaefer (1906–1983), owner of Mercury Marine (Mequon)
- Herbert Kohler (born 1939), business executive (Kohler)
- Oscar Mayer (1859–1955), founder of meat packing company (Milwaukee, Fitchburg)
- John Menard (born 1940), business executive (Eau Claire)
- George Safford Parker (1863–1937), pen inventor and entrepreneur (Shullsburg, Janesville)
- John Shannon ( born 1945–) CEO Quick Cable Inc. ( La Crosse)
- Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), economist and computer scientist (Milwaukee)
- James Trane (1857–1936), founder of heating and air conditioning company (La Crosse)
- Reuben Trane (1886–1954), co-foudner of Trane (La Crosse)
- Elmer Winter (1912–2009), co-founder of Manpower Inc. (Milwaukee)
- Dean Witter (1887–1969), founder of Dean Witter & Co. investment house (Wausau)
- Walter Wriston (1919–2005), chairman and CEO of Citicorp (Appleton)
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“BOSWELL. But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad? JOHNSON. “Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it.... It is his business to judge; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that the cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the Judge’s opinion.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“In leaving the people’s business in their hands, we can not be wrong.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)