Locate in Scotland - Delivering service and support to international companies wishing to develop a cost-effective base in Scotland for serving customers world-wide.
Scottish Networks International - A partnership between the British Council Scotland and Scottish Trade International. The aim is to assist international students and arrange placements within businesses in Scotland.
Scottish Trade International - Scottish enterprise group. Aims to increase the ability of companies to exploit international opportunities and co-ordinate a network of local export support organisations within Scotland.
Trade Scotland - Market information, company profiles, partnerships, financial assistance, business opportunities, exhibitions and training, everything you need for profitable international trade in Scotland.
VIBES Awards - A competition to help businesses in Scotland to take steps to improve or reduce their impact on the environment, often saving money in the process.
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Economic Development If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Economic Development
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Economic Development Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Economic Development
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Economic Development 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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Economic Development
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Economic Development Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Economic Development
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Economic Development A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Economic Development
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Economic Development "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Economic Development
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Economic Development "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "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) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Economic Development
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Economic Development Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Economic Development
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) 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 Economic Development The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Economic Development
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Economic Development "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Economic Development
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Economic Development How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Economic Development
