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From Disney to Lincoln: 10 Cool Business Cards From the Rich, Famous, & Powerful

Jan. 22, 2013 4:44pm Becket Adams

Business cards are an often unmentioned but necessary part of a person’s professional life. They’re great for introductions and they’re an invaluable resource when it comes to networking. Also, if you’re a businessman, they act as handheld commercials.

Now we’re not alone in thinking these little cards are important.

Indeed, many rich, famous, and/or powerful people have used (or use) business cards. From Abraham Lincoln to Walt Disney, the benefit of exchanging contact information has been recognized by a variety of notable personalities.

Luckily for us, Emily Temple of Flavorwire and Alex Wain of So Bad So Good have hunted down some of the cooler calling cards out there.

Enjoy:

1. Science fiction author Isaac Asimov:

Business Cards of the Rich, Powerful, and/or Famous

flavorwire.com

2. Abraham Lincoln:

americaslibrary.gov

3. Albert Einstein:

flavorwire.com

4. Walt Disney:

d23.disney.go.com

5. The Wright Brothers:

blog.psprint.com

6. Cartoon legend Chuck Jones:

shrapnel.tumblr.com

7. Fidel Freakin’ Castro!

flavorwire.com

8. Andy Warhol:

techeblog.com

9. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama:

gottahaveit.com

10. Bill Gates:

ongig.com

Click here for more historical business cards and click here for more modern-day cards.

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Comments (21)

curmudgeon60
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:49am
I LOVE The Blaze! thanks for the bits of history and a thanks to POTICA69 too…interesting!

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banjarmon
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:58pm
One day they will pick up my card and ask…WHO THE H E L L WAS THAT???!!!

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NDPINDNT
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 9:11pm
Kind of like tracking where he was born. He was all over the place. That way you can never pin him down.

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ZengaPA65
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 8:43pm
Why was it necessary to put Obama’s card in there since you claim to despise him? The Blaze staff jerks it over Obama more than that idiot Chris Matthews. Shills.

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Advection
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 6:56pm
Obama’s card is hilarious! He put 4 addresses and 8 phone numbers on it! How many cards have you seen that needed to indicate that “My ego is continued on back…”?

The guy seriously wants people to believe that he’s important. Either that or else someone has a very tiny peepee.

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- Advection
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Also, SENATOR obama chose to put the Great Seal on his card (which is nearly identical to the Presidential Seal) instead of the Senate Seal where the SENATOR worked.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 9:07pm
  You nailed it. You have to be blind not to realize the glaring sociopathic narcissist here.
  This nut is in love with himself.
  
  What this does reveal is that Barry has very deep-seated inferiority and esteem issues.
  Overcompensation is always a dead give-away.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 9:38pm
  @BODYBAG
  
  Thanks. It’s both hilarious and sad at the same time. I read somewhere that ol’ Barry used to tell people in school that he was Indonesian royalty. Hey, maybe that’s how he got into Haa-vaad.
  
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- FreeUsAll
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:26pm
  @ADVECTION
  
  “…else someone has a very tiny peepee.”
  
  You can call it something else, maybe more derogatory, perhaps more scientifically, but don’t write things like that – it’s too much. Lol.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 6:20pm
Wile E. Coyote……genius
( my favorite card)

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potica69
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 6:16pm
I wonder about Albert Einstein’s card. Back in his days phone numbers started with 2 letters of the alphabet. The number on his card are all numerical.

???

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- DZ-015
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:41pm
  The prefixes came in the 1930′s. Before that, it was all numeric. “BUtterfield 8″ was a novel published in the mid 1930′s, but the letters were simply the first two digits of the seven digit phone number. In the Northeast the numbers got longer as the available shorter numbers ran out, Where I grew up, there were still some four digit numbers in the directory, but most were five. The prefixes did not reach us until the mid 1950′s. Even then, most people ignored them, and did as Einstein did, expressing the number as seven digits.
  
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Dr.Doofenschmirtz
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 5:51pm
I’m going to put the text from the bottom of the Lincoln card at the bottom of mine. That’s awesome!

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mikenorm21
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 5:40pm
Sadly if you call two of the numbers on Obama’s business card you get an answering machine that says, “Hello, this is Tony Rezko, I am currently out of the office, but if you leave your name, number, and bank account info, I will make sure you get a thank you card from my best friend Barry.”

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RonV
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 5:34pm
What is that logo on the front side, bottom, of Obama’s business card? Looks like a union shop logo.

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- RedDawn2012
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:27am
  Yup. Graphics union label, probably by shop who made the cards. Not usually the type of thing one puts on one’s cards, but BO’s strong affiliation with that sort demanded it in his mind, I’m guessing. See it here: http://trademarks.justia.com/734/71/gciu-graphic-communications-international-union-union-label-73471230.html
  
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tonypro
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:54pm
The only card I want to see is the one that gets hung around barrys neck for a mugshot when he’s arrested for treason.

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- Just_Us2
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 5:05pm
  I would prefer a toe tag.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:47pm
I wonder what the Lincoln is worth?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:57pm
  I would still prefer the Chuck Jones card.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 5:26pm
  I wonder if Robert Heinlein had a card? Or Tex Avery?
  
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