Word: entrepreneurism
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Private television in Italy, which I founded, became an element of liberty, in breaking the monopoly of state TV. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom...
...political threat. Support has risen in internal polls from 7% to 17% in the past eight months. A minimum of 10% is needed to win seats in parliament. Analysts attribute the spike to economic hard times - Cem is seen by many as a Turkish version of Silvio Berlusconi, an entrepreneur whose appeal lies in his business success and can-do attitude. But anti-Western sentiment is growing in Turkey in the aftermath of the Iraq war, partly as a result of the U.S. government's harsh criticism of the country for failing to admit U.S troops. Paradoxically, Uzan's troubles...
...your success as a businessman influenced the kind of politician you are? Private television in Italy, which I founded, became an element of liberty, in breaking the monopoly of state TV. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom...
...forest, like the hero of a Conrad tale. Most of them end up hustling condos in Phuket or Bali, or eventually head home for a real job. Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today, Purser rules as the beneficent panjandrum of a small yet stately demesne there, employing hundreds of villagers and subcontracting to thousands more...
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. George Washington's colleagues found it hard to imagine touching the austere general on the shoulder, and we would find it even more so today. Jefferson and Adams are just as intimidating. But Ben Franklin, that genial urban entrepreneur, seems made of flesh rather than of marble, addressable by nickname, and he turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind those newfangled spectacles. He speaks to us, through his letters and hoaxes and autobiography, not with orotund rhetoric but with a chattiness and clever irony...