Pre-Qin 先秦 Fan Li 范蠡

范蠡，字少伯，汉族，春秋楚国宛(今河南南阳)人。春秋末著名的政治家、军事家和实业家。后人尊称"商圣"。他出身贫贱，但博学多才，与楚宛令文种相识、相交甚深。因不满当时楚国政治黑暗、非贵族不得入仕而一起投奔越国，辅佐越国勾践。帮助勾践兴越国，灭吴国，一雪会稽之耻，功成名就之后激流勇退，期间三次经商成巨富，三散家财，自号陶朱公，乃我国儒商之鼻祖。世人誉之："忠以为国；智以保身；商以致富，成名天下"。
Fan Li, Han nationality, courtesy named Shaobo, born in Wan, in the State of Chu during the Spring- and-Autumn Period (today Nanyang, Henan) was a well-known statesman, military strategist and industrialist, referred to as a "Business Saint" by future generations. Although he was born in the gutter, he became a brilliant man with wide learning and befriended Wen Zhong, Wanling of the State of Chu. Pleased neither with official corruption in the Chu State nor with a government limited to the nobility alone, he went to the Yue State as an aide to King Gou Jian of Yue. He played a big role in Yue's rising and defeating of the State of Wu to shell off Yue's shame of being defeated by the State of Wu previously. After the victory, he resigned and re-named himself Tao Zhu Gong. He became a successful businessman in his later years with his three operations leading to great fortune that was later all donated. Fan Li became a god of Confucian entrepreneurs, lauded by contemporaries as "loyal to the country, wise to protect him, wealthy through doing businesses and enjoying world fame".
主要成就：帮助勾践灭吴，儒商鼻祖
Major achievements: helping King Gou Jian of Yue in the elimination of Wu; a god of Confucian entrepreneurs