Business

What is a business?

Is it a set of processes?
Is it a reputation?
Is it the intellectual property?
Is it the history?
Is it the people?
Is it the tradition?
Is it the clients?
Is it the type of business?
Is it the products?

Interesting Points

When it comes to basic living standards, studies show that money has a great influence on happiness. If we have $40,000 a year - we have enough money to be happy. After the basic needs are met, the next $50,000, $100,000, $1,000,000 or $10 million has little effect on your happiness. If you have a lot of money and are able to spend your time any way you want, you?re not going to be happy if you haven?t developed relationships or activities that make you happy.

99% of the items you purchase you should be able to get for 20% or more of their retail price. In order to get these type of returns, you will have to be organized and spend some time plotting out a plan.

It is important to work on the budget and debt reduction using as many painless saving ideas as possible to begin the debt reduction process.

Interesting quotes.

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Quote

"compilers are better at reading code than developers."

This is the key to efficient programmers.

Is it the key to efficient designs?

ING

Looks like ING is at 4.35% today. This is great for your 6 months of living expenses.

Silver Roller Machine

So I should build and market a machine for rolling silverware/flatware in napkins in the restaurant style. A device could be used by pouring in wet silverware from the dishwasher and having it select and roll them. It should be marketed at around 150$.

Ethanol

Alright, so instead of a windfarm off the coast of the USA...we should create a powerplant that runs on Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol.

Ethanol Tariffs

"The Wall Street Journal is urging Washington to discard the 54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol."

I agree that the federal tariff on ethanol is a bad thing. I think Reducing the tariff by 5 cents each year until it reaches zero would be a good compromise and allow the corn industry to move to other products.

If individual states would like to impose tariffs/taxes they can do it on their level.

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Hello. I'm sick today. I hope everyone else is maintaining their health.

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