Business
- T. B. Anderson, founder of the Sedalia Telephone Company in 1880
- Allen Percival Green (1875–1956), engineer, founder of A. P. Green Fire Brick Company, and philanthropist (donated A. P. Green Chapel to the University of Missouri)
- John W. Hicks, Jr. (1888–1945), President of Paramount International Films, Vice-President of Paramount Pictures
- Cyrus N. Johns, President American Chain and Cable Company
- E. Virgil Neal (1868–1949), manufacturer.
- Samuel Lee Stedman (1916–1961), MBA Harvard (1937), New York merchant banker, Wall Sreet financial analyst
- William E. Franklin, President, Weyerhaeuser Far East. President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, President, International Timber Company of Indonesia, President Kenneday Bay Timber Company (Malaysia)
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“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)
“It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to’t with delight.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)