Business
- Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur
- Liliane Bettencourt, cosmetics, one of the richest persons in Europe
- Marcel Bich (1914–1994), Bic pens
- Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering
- Marcel Boussac, textiles, fashion, newspapers, race horse breeding
- Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), automobile manufacturer
- André Citroën (1878–1935), automobile manufacturer
- Adolphe Clément-Bayard (1855–1928) entrepreneur manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aviation
- Alexandre Darracq (1855–1931), automotive pioneer
- Louis Delâge (1874–1947) automotive pioneer
- Émile Delahaye (1843–1905), automotive pioneer
- Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932), agricultural commodities
- Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771–1834), founder of DuPont
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), entrepreneur
- Jacques Foccart (19..–1997), import-export
- Léon Gaumont, pioneer film inventor
- Paul-Louis Halley (1934–2004), supermarket tycoon
- Max Hymans (1900–1961), aviation
- Jean-Marie Messier (born 1957), former Vivendi CEO
- Gérard Mestrallet (born 1949), Chairman and CEO of Suez
- Gérard Mulliez, entrepreneur (Auchan, Decathlon, Flunch...), whose family is considered as one of the richest in Europe
- Charles Pathé, pioneer of film industry
- Armand Peugeot (1849–1915) automobile manufacturer
- François Pinault (born 1936), entrepreneur
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (1726–1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of the American Revolution"
- Marcel Renault (1872–1903), automobile manufacturer
- James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), banker
- Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), wine maker
- Eugène Schueller (1881–1954), founder of L'Oréal
- Bernard Tapie (born 1943), entrepreneur
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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)
“Every expansion of government in business means that government in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the nation’s press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)