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LiveWIRE - Help and advice on starting your own business, with essential business kit and a competition; sponsored by Shell.
smallbusiness|europe - Organisation seeking to maximise the interests of UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) at the European level by strengthening the dialogue between UK SMEs and the decision-makers in Brussels.
Better Business - Resources for microbusinesses, entrepreneurs and freelancers.
Federation of Small Businesses - Protecting, promoting, and furthering the interests of the self-employed and small business sector.
Small Business Guide - SME portal sponsored by Lloyds TSB. News, information and directory.
The Institute of Business Advisers - Non-profit making institute which specialises in helping small firms. Information, branch lists and details of services on offer.
smarterwork.com - Service facilitating virtual teams by matching businesses with freelance contractors and offering virtual office services, a secure on-line payment platform and performance guarantees.
Business Bureau (UK) - Useful advice and information on starting up and running a small business. Articles, guides and links.
Chamber Business Enterprises - Offering business support, advice, membership, and other services including networking, trade, worldwide supplier sourcing and access to export and business information.
The Big Small Business Initiative - Backed by major companies, offering helplines, factsheets, discounts, advice and consultancy on all aspects of setting up and running a small business.
Microsoft bCentral - Miscrosoft's small business resources portal, covering technology, marketing, finance, administration and legal issues.
Growing Business Awards - An awards scheme for start up small businesses in the UK (those with between one and 500 employees).
Business Europe - A source for news, information and best-practice advice for UK small businesses
Business Resource World - A range of business resources, including: plans, manuals, standards, documentation and legislative aids.
Legal Agreements for Small Business - Draft legal agreements, pre-written contracts, and templates for small businesses in the UK.
The Outsourcing Index - Outsorcing information and materials geared towards the smaller company.
The Small Business Service - Offers information on a range of services provided by the DTI specifically to help small businesses.
The Small Business Community Forums - A vendor independent interactive portal dedicated exclusively to small business.
Business Gateway - Provides online advice and information on a wide range of issues for both start up and existing businesses.
e-Co - SME community resource providing news, information and expert advice for UK small businesses.
The Lightbulb Factor - New business ideas service for budding entrepreneurs seeking inspiration, with a new small business idea every month.
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Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Small Business Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Small Business The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Small Business Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Small Business Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Small Business With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Small Business I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Small Business It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Small Business "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Small Business Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Small Business Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Small Business I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Small Business "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Small Business If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Small Business The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Small Business "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Small Business Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Small Business There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Small Business
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