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CAM - Provider of benchmarking services to small and medium enterprises.
Choose Enterprise - Offering advice, help and support for young people thinking about setting up their own business.
Dungannon Enterprise Centre - Aims to help new business start up and to encourage existing businesses to expand, as well as encourage the development of the local economy.
Ireland North West - This web site highlights what the North West of Ireland has to offer companies who want to invest there.
Manufacturing Technology Partnership - Improving the competitiveness of manufacturing industry by enabling companies to profit from the implementation of technology. Includes details of services, training seminars, talks and previous clients.
Small Business Agency - Responsible for the establishment and expansion of small businesses. The site contains information and advice on setting up small businesses and expansion.
Friends of Belfast - An initiative which fosters partnerships with key persons across all sectors, for the promotion of business opportunities and investment links between Belfast and North America.
Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Representing every sector of the business community. Includes events diary, services, news and publications.
Mentor Economic Developments Limited - Consultancy specialising in business and economic development. Features company profile, portfolio and details of services offered. Located in Belfast and Newry.
Department of Economic Development - Describes the role of the DEDNI, the main Government Department in Northern Ireland concerned with economic development.
Ulster Community Investment Trust - Provider of loan facilities, equity investments and free support and mentoring to the community economic development sector. Includes background, staff profiles and information on making an application.
Northern Ireland Economic Council - Independent advisory body. Includes events, reports and contacts.
Northern Ireland Quality Council - Includes meetings, contacts and mailing list.
Centre for Competitiveness - Provides events calendar and details of services offered.
CoreConnect - An amalgamation of 8 local councils that offers a range of services to support regional economic development
Startingabusiness in Ireland.com - Provides information, resources and advice on starting a business in ireland.
Fofanny - Contains information on the proposed building of a sophisticated new water treatment works to replace the existing Fofannybane plant sited in the western Mournes area.
InterTradeIreland - Business development body, promoting North-South trade by building business capability and competitiveness.
FLAG - Rural development agency that develop and implement sustainable solutions to local rural development issues.
New Directions - Provides information about the Regional Action Plan developed by the enterprise partnership in the North West region. Includes details of services and training, including those for women.
Northern Ireland Business Start Programme - Information about the free training and support programme for people wishing to start their own business.
Start a Business Programme Web Packages - Registration based service helping new-start companies market themselves on the Internet. Service available to GoForIt Start a Business Programme (SABP) participants.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Economic Development "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Economic Development Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Economic Development This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Economic Development Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Economic Development "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Economic Development Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Economic Development No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Economic Development If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Economic Development A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Economic Development Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Economic Development Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Economic Development "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Economic Development This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Economic Development Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Economic Development Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Economic Development I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Economic Development It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Economic Development When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Economic Development "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Economic Development "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Economic Development Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Economic Development
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