business magnates
Captains of commerce
Business magnates are individuals who have accumulated enormous wealth and influence through commerce or industry.
The term evokes figures who dominate entire sectors—oil, steel, technology, media—and wield power extending beyond their companies into politics and public life.
The business magnates of the Gilded Age built railroads and mansions alike.
Magnate alone works the same way; the business prefix simply makes the domain explicit.
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- dealAgreement or distribution
- conglomeratesLarge diversified corporations
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
Jeff Bezos · Warren Buffett · plutocrat · technology · entrepreneurship · self-made man · economic inequality · industrialists · robber barons · gilded age · Andrew Carnegie · captains of industry · oligarch · power broker · dynasty · wealth creation · businessman · corner office
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
- American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- notablesleaders, celebrities, dignitary, rulers, VIPs
- Mexican IconsFrida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Salma Hayek, Guillermo del Toro, cultural icons
- Post-Soviet FiguresPutin, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Lukashenko, Medvedev
business magnatessweatshop workers
Exploited factory employees
proletariat · the working class · factory workers · day laborers · minimum wage workers