BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS

Andrew Carnegie
wealthy steel industrialist

Amadeo Giannini
Bank of America’s founder

Horace Greeley
New York Tribune founder

Soichiro Honda
creator of the Honda automobile company

Peter Kindersley
book illustrator and publisher

Ray Kroc
founder of McDonald's fast food restaurant chain

Jimmy Lai
newspaper publisher; founder of Giordano International

Dr. Orison Swett Marden
founder, Success magazine

Adolph Ochs
New York Times founder

Joseph Pulitzer
newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize

Colonel Harland Sanders
started Kentucky Fried Chicken

Emerson Spartz
12-year-old internet entrepreneur (MuggleNet)

Dave Thomas
founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain

J. Edgar Thomson
chief engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad


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