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:
“I am not going to have 2,000 condoms hanging in my window. I don’t care what it represents.”
—Sharon Zuckerbrod, U.S. business executive. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 23 (November 20, 1989)
“The business of America is business.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power—Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.”
—Edward Moore (1712–1757)