businessman

A businessperson (plural businesspeople, much more commonly referred to as businessmen) is someone involved in business, where in particular undertaking of activities, commercial or industrial, for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue from a combination of human, financial, intellectual and physical capital that further fuels economic development and growth. An entrepreneur is an example of a businessperson. Though the term usually refers to founder, owner, or majority shareholder of a business, the term is sometimes interchangeably used to describe a high level executive who does the everyday running and management of the business even though the executive is not the owner. The term may sometimes mean someone who is involved in the upper-level management role of a corporation, company, enterprise, firm, organization, or agency. This can especially apply to the founder, an owner, a manager, an executive, or an administrator in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization, or agency.

Une personnalité du monde des affaires, un homme d'affaires ou une femme d'affaires, par opposition à un cadre, est une personne qui a créé une ou plusieurs sociétés commerciales, ou qui les administre, profitant des revenus qu'elles produisent. C'est notamment le cas des self-made men (autodidactes du monde des affaires) qui, selon le mythe du rêve américain, bâtissent leur réussite professionnelle sans capitaux propres initiaux, parfois sans qualification scolaire.

Przedsiębiorca – w polskim systemie prawa nie ma jednolitej definicji przedsiębiorcy. Funkcjonujące definicje sprowadza się do tego, że przedsiębiorcą jest podmiot prawa, który prowadzi we własnym imieniu działalność gospodarczą (lub zawodową). W rozumieniu prawnym „przedsiębiorca” nie jest synonimem przedsiębiorstwa ani firmy.