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Beyondbricks.com - The Department of Trade and Industry's portal for entrepreneurs. Offers a community for networking with suppliers, customers and investors, guidance, resources and tools for business development.
Interforum - Aims to provide an interface and learning resource for UK businesses trading electronically. Government papers, news, links, press releases and archives.
Free-Bee - Offer a range of 'free' services to UK businesses, including 0800 phone numbers.
The Venue Resource Group - Providing a superior service for hotel reservations, meetings, incentives and business travel.
Business Group PLC - Support for entrepreneurs and new businesses including on-line checking of names and trademarks.
Saga - Provides an range of services for people aged 50 and over, such as financial and insurance services including home, motor and health insurance and holidays.
UK Company Browser - Tool for research and tracking of top UK companies, and for comparison with other companies worldwide. Monthly fee.
Technology Means Business - DTI sponsored national accreditation scheme provides approved advisers to small and medium sized enterprises on the use of e-commerce and IT.
The British Chambers of Commerce - Official site. Representing UK business interests around the world.
The Busy Exec - Provides business and lifestyle information for professionals including travel, news and information, executive career advice and advice on balancing family and career commitments.
Excelsior from PriceWaterhouseCoopers - Free resource for public sector professionals seeking to improve their organisations performance. Features include latest news, case studies, articles, free weekly newsletters.
Companies House - Registration and provision of company information.
The Fax Preference Service - Allows businesses to register against receiving unsolicited marketing faxes. Information about the service, with online registration form.
Postcode Anywhere - Web based address and postcode finder for over 27 million UK addresses.
CommentWire: Business News and Opinion - Provides insights and opinions on the key business stories of the day, written by a network of over 200 business experts.
Contactcentres - Information and advice on how to manage people, processes and technology so as to effectively manage customer relationships.
UK Roll - Offers UK electoral roll searches and reports.
Outsourcing Management - Information, resources, papers and background for sourcing and outsourcing.
Human Resource and Organisational Development Consultancy (HRODC) - Offers business and management articles for practitioners, researchers and students.
Business Resources Online - A online source for business manuals, standards, plans, documentation and books.
Business Link - A comprehensive information resource for small and medium sized businesses, linked to local advice centres across England and relevant government websites.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. 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In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Resources "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Resources "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Resources If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Resources The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Resources Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Resources Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Resources "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Resources If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Resources Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Resources Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Resources "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Resources I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) What's new? Most of my wife. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Resources The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Resources People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. 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