Business
See also: South African businesspeople- Raymond Ackerman, businessman (born 1931)
- Barney Barnato, mining magnate (1852–1897)
- David Brink, businessman (born 1939)
- John Fairbairn, founder of Mutual Life
- Sol Kerzner, hotel magnate (born 1935)
- Basetsana Kumalo, former Miss South Africa, presenter and businesswoman (born 1974)
- Sammy Marks, businessman (1844–1920)
- Patrice Motsepe, businessman (born 1962)
- Elon Musk, Internet and space launch entrepreneur (born 1971)
- Harry Oppenheimer, businessman (1908–2000)
- Charles Purdon, agricultural pioneer (1838–1926)
- Mamphela Ramphele, political activist, academic, businesswoman and mother to the son of Steve Biko (born 1947)
- Cyril Ramaphosa, politician and businessman (born 1952)
- Cecil Rhodes, businessman (1853–1902)
- Anton Rupert, businessman and conservationist (1916–2006)
- Johann Rupert, businessman, son of Anton Rupert (born 1950)
- Tokyo Sexwale, politician and businessman (born 1953)
- Mark Shuttleworth, web entrepreneur, founder of Thawte and Ubuntu Linux, astronaut (born 1973)
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“As for your friend, my prospective reader, I hope he ignores Fort Sumter, and “Old Abe,” and all that; for that is just the most fatal, and, indeed, the only fatal weapon you can direct against evil ever; for, as long as you know of it, you are particeps criminis. What business have you, if you are an “angel of light,” to be pondering over the deeds of darkness, reading the New York Herald, and the like.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.”
—Plato (427–347 B.C.)