List of Swiss People - Business

Business

  • Carl Franz Bally (1821–1899), founder of the Bally Shoe company
  • Ernesto Bertarelli (born 1965), entrepreneur, founder of Team Alinghi
  • Daniel Borel (born 1950), founder of Logitech
  • Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), watchmaker
  • François-Louis Cailler (1796–1852), chocolatier
  • Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), automobile engineer, founder of Chevrolet
  • Gottlieb Duttweiler (1888–1962), entrepreneur, founder of Migros
  • Alfred Escher (1819–1882), statesman, businessman and railway constructor
  • Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767–1823), architect of the Lint melioration
  • Louis Favre (1826–1879), engineer of the Gotthard tunnel
  • Nessim Gaon (born 1922), financier, founder of the Noga company
  • Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839–1899), railway entrepreneur
  • Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), entrepreneur, chairman, Swatch Group
  • Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer (1764–1841), banker
  • Jürg Marquard (born 1945), magazine publisher
  • Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), founder of Nestlé S.A.
  • Daniel Peter (1836–1919), inventor of milk chocolate
  • Georges Edouard Piaget (1855–1931), watchmaker
  • Beat Fischer von Reichenbach (1641–1698), held postal monopoly in Berne
  • Werner Reinhart (1884–1951), industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron
  • Daniel Jean-Richard (1665–1741), watchmaker
  • Philippe Suchard (1797–1884), chocolatier
  • Ernst Thomke (born 1939 in Biel/Bienne, turnaround manager, e.g. Swatch
  • Daniel Vasella (born 1953), chairman
  • William de Vigier (1912–2003), entrepreneur

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Famous quotes containing the word business:

    “The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)