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:
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters—not to talk in armies and nations and numbers—but to track it home.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“BOSWELL. But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad? JOHNSON. “Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it.... It is his business to judge; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that the cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the Judge’s opinion.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)