Business
- Donie Cassidy – businessman and TD
- Niall FitzGerald – honorary KBE, chief executive Unilever
- James_Gamble_(industrialist) – Co-Founder of Procter_&_Gamble
- Arthur Guinness – brewer
- Pat McDonagh – founder of Supermac's
- J. P. McManus – businessman
- Denis O'Brien – businessman
- Michael O'Leary – CEO of Ryanair
- David J. O'Reilly – CEO of Chevron
- Anthony J F O'Reilly – Independent Newspapers and head of Heinz, 1979–1996
- Margaret Rudkin – Founder of Pepperidge Farm
- Tony Ryan – founder of Ryanair and Guinness Peat Aviation
- Peter Sutherland – Chairman of BP Plc, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and formerly Ireland's representative at the European Commission
- Thomas Nash (Newfoundland) Irish fisherman, boat builder, and entrepreneur. Settled in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Founder of Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 107:23-24.
“Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)