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Finance Wales - Subsidiary of the Welsh Development Agency provides investment and support to small and medium enterprises. Includes information on available support and eligibility.
Invest in Wales - From the Welsh Development Agency, aiming to promote Wales as a business environment. Includes testimonials, case studies, statistics, and facts.
The Swansea Bay Partnership - Joint venture of the Welsh Development Agency, Carmarthenshire County Council, Neath-Port Talbot County Borough Council, and the City and County of Swansea to provide a positive business environment in the area.
Wales Fast Growth 50 - Managed by the Centre for Enterprise and Regional Development at the University of Wales Bangor, and aims to identify and network the fifty fastest growing indigenous firms in the Principality. Includes lists, articles, new, sponsors, analysis, and firm profiles.
WalesTrade International - Established by the National Assembly and offering export development services to businesses. Includes a description of those services and information for international visitors.
WDA Food Directorate - Works with partners throughout the industry to build on the strength of Welsh food.
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli "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) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Economic Development Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Economic Development What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Economic Development "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Economic Development The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Economic Development "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Economic Development A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Economic Development The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Economic Development If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Economic Development "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Economic Development "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Economic Development "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Economic Development I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Economic Development In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Economic Development I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Economic Development There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Economic Development Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Economic Development "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Economic Development Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Economic Development "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Economic Development Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Economic Development The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Economic Development
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