Business magnate, the Glossary
A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise.[1]
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85 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Carnegie, Aristotle Onassis, Arthur Perdue, Asa Griggs Candler, Automotive industry, Bank, Bernard Arnault, Bernie Ecclestone, Big business, Bill Gates, Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bourgeoisie, Business oligarch, Businessperson, Captain of industry, Carlos Slim, Chaebol, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Dhirubhai Ambani, Elon Musk, Entrepreneurship, Forbes, Fred C. Koch, Freight transport, Gilded Age, Henry Ford, Henry J. Heinz, History of India, Howard Hughes, Investor, Ivar Kreuger, J. P. Morgan, James Dyson, James Finlayson (industrialist), James J. Hill, Jamshedji Tata, Japanese language, Jay Gould, Jeff Bezos, John D. Rockefeller, John George Nicolay, John Hay, Josiah Wedgwood, Lakshmi Mittal, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Latin, Leland Stanford, Li Ka-shing, ... Expand index (35 more) »
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
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Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (Aristotélis Onásis,; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate.
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Arthur Perdue
Arthur W. Perdue (1885–1977) was an American businessman and the founder of Perdue Farms along with his wife Pearl in 1920.
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Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Automotive industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.
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Bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.
Bernard Arnault
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman, investor and art collector.
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Bernie Ecclestone
Bernard Charles Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British former business magnate.
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Big business
Big business involves large-scale corporate-controlled financial or business activities. Business magnate and Big business are business terms.
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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
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Bloomberg Billionaires Index
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
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Business oligarch
A business oligarch is generally a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics.
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Businessperson
A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman depending on the gender, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. Business magnate and businessperson are business occupations.
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Captain of industry
In the 19th century, a captain of industry was a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way. Business magnate and captain of industry are business terms.
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Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helú (born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.
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Chaebol
A chaebol is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.
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Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal (Dhirubhai) Hirachand Ambani (28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002) was an Indian businessman who founded Reliance Industries in 1958.
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. Business magnate and Entrepreneurship are business occupations, business terms and management occupations.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Fred C. Koch
Fred Chase Koch (September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which—under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David—would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the United States in 2015.
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Freight transport
Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.
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Gilded Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.
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Henry J. Heinz
Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot.
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Investor
An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest).
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Ivar Kreuger
Ivar Kreuger (2 March 1880 – 12 March 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist.
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J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
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James Dyson
Sir James Dyson (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company.
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James Finlayson (industrialist)
James Finlayson (29 August 1772? ODNB article by Brian D. J. Denoon, ‘Finlayson, James (1772?–1852?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 gives probable date of birth. – 1852?) was a British Quaker who, in effect, brought the Industrial Revolution to Tampere, Finland founding in 1820 the Finlayson company.
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James J. Hill
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director.
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Jamshedji Tata
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Jay Gould
Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty.
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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (and Robinson (2010), p. 7.; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
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John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist.
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John George Nicolay
John George Nicolay (February 26, 1832 – September 26, 1901) was a German-born American author and diplomat who served as private secretary to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and later co-authored Abraham Lincoln: A History, a ten-volume biography of the 16th president.
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John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century.
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Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist.
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Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (born 15 June 1950 in Sadulpur, Rajasthan, India) is an Indian steel magnate, based in the United Kingdom.
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Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded software company Oracle Corporation.
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Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California.
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Li Ka-shing
Sir Li Ka-shing (born 29 July 1928) is a Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.
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Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
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Magnate
The term magnate, from the late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus, "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities in Western Christian countries since the medieval period. Business magnate and magnate are social classes.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.
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Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War.
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Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (23 February 1744 – 19 September 1812; also spelled Anschel) was a German-Jewish-French banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
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A media proprietor, also called a media executive, media mogul or media tycoon, is an entrepreneur who controls any means of public or commercial mass media, through the personal ownership or holding of a dominant position within a media conglomerate or enterprise.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
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Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.
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Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, film producer, explorer, sports executive, investor and philanthropist.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".
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Plutocracy
A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
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Real estate investing
Real estate investing involves the purchase, management and sale or rental of real estate for profit.
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
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Robber baron (industrialist)
Robber baron is a term first applied as social criticism by 19th century muckrakers and others to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. Business magnate and Robber baron (industrialist) are business terms.
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Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor.
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Russian oligarchs
Russian oligarchs (oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Sam Walton
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas and Midwest City, Oklahoma in 1962 and 1983 respectively.
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Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution", a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System".
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Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardisation, mass production and industrialisation from the late 19th century into the early 20th century.
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Larry Page.
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Shogun
Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
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Software industry
The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based" (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MBaaS, MSaaS, DCaaS etc.). The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, consulting and data recovery.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
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Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate.
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Taikun
Actually spelled "tycoon" during its brief usage in English language diplomatic notes in the 1860s, is an archaic Japanese term of respect derived from Chinese I Ching, which once referred to an independent ruler who did not have an imperial lineage.
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Taipan (corporate title)
A taipan (Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", American Speech, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414–415. literally "top class"汉英词典 — A Chinese-English Dictionary 1988 新华书店北京发行所发行 (Beijing Xinhua Bookshop).), sometimes spelled tai-pan, is a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in mainland China or Hong Kong.
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Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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The World's Billionaires
The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking of people who are billionaires, i.e., they are considered to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more, by the American business magazine Forbes.
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Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who currently serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate
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