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Wed Feb 10 22:51:30 2010

A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative enterprises and state-owned enterprises. Businesses can also be formed not-for-profit or be state-owned.

The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage (above) to mean a particular company or corporation, the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness, or the broadest meaning to include all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the philosophy of business, is a matter of debate and complexity of meanings

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Wed Mar 10 15:02:49 2010

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WP Creativix is a Free . Business. & Portfolio WordPress Theme has a Javascript Slideshow and Lightbox Portfolio. It's design and function offers you a lot of new possibilities.

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Wed Mar 10 13:05:14 2010

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From Google News Search: "business"
Wed Mar 10 18:29:22 2010

Does my small business need to file a tax return?
Q. I am a small business owner and have been developing my company for the past year. Because I left my previous job to start this business I do not have a current income and because my company only recently officially "opened for business" we do not have a profit line. Do I need to file? What about the business expenses that I incur?
Asked by greg b - Mon Mar 5 18:09:43 2007 - - 4 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Definitely keep track of your expenses. Most start-up expenses should be capitalized until operations begin. This means that you cannot deduct certain expenses until the date the business started, even if you paid them last year. Some expenses should be amortized over a period of time. Business start-up costs are the expenses you incur before you actually begin business operations. Your business start-up costs will depend on the type of business you are starting. They may include costs for advertising, travel, surveys, and training. These costs are generally capital expenses. You usually recover costs for a particular asset (such as machinery or office equipment) through depreciation (discussed next). You can elect to deduct up to… [cont.]
Answered by tma - Tue Mar 6 02:55:56 2007

Do you think a fee based business acquaintance service can be a profitable industry?
Q. Everyone has some business acquiantance that can help others to do successful business. How to let all of them know each other. Fee based business acquitantance service may do it. Big business service ? Profitbale business service ? Let me know. Great thanks.
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A. Yes -- it is called linkedin.com
Answered by Mr. PhD - Mon Aug 14 04:17:09 2006

What kind of business can you start with a small amount of money?
Q. Since I have not had much luck with getting a good job , even with a degree, I am thinking about starting my own business. I do not have much money, do you know of any organizations that can match what I have to start a business. I have about $6000-7000. Is this a bad time to start a business with this economy?
Asked by Tigerfan - Thu Jul 2 12:16:06 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Here are some small business enterprises to consider: 1. Providing a private tutoring service ranging from music lessons, English writing and reading lessons: to training seniors on how to operate a particular computer; 2. Offering to supervise or monitor services to senior citizens especially those wanting someone to take them on errands, driving on long trips, watch and clean up homes left behind by seniors who have been relocated to assisted living quarters; 3. Becoming a regional apartment manager servicing several properties while traveling to and fro to collect monthly rents and service tenant complaints; 4. Leasing a van equipped with paper shredding machinery and go into high-income areas offering to shred their highly… [cont.]
Answered by VicSEO - Fri Jul 3 02:57:13 2009

From Yahoo Answer Search: "business"
Wed Mar 10 15:03:51 2010

Business is the "art" of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost. - Patrick Dixon

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  • You cannot Adhere to the teachings of the church on Sunday and not apply to the marketplace on Monday.
    • Archbishop LeRoy Bailey Jr senior pastor of The First Cathedral; From a sermon entitled: He Is Lord
  • However successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages ill a business which he don't understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.
    • P. T. Barnum, ‘Beware of ‘‘Outside Operations’’’, The Art of Money Getting
  • What I must understand is why someone will continue to get out of bed in the morning once they have all the money they could want. Do they love the business, or do they love the money?
    • Warren Buffett, ‘The Warren Buffett You Don’t Know’, Business Week article, July 5th 1999