Word: sells
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...They pay me in free cable. And then I sell the cable. I'm actually talking about literally coils of cable...
Including the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) as an example of "corporate welfare" is a mistake. Ex-Im provides market-rate loans--not grants--to help any exporting company, regardless of size, sell abroad. The $5 billion Congress appropriated to Ex-Im over the past six years has been repaid or is in the process of being repaid! Also, there are 77 other foreign-government export-credit agencies already helping their local companies seize export opportunities from American workers. If there were no Ex-Im, most likely Europe's Airbus would win many, if not all, of the foreign aircraft...
Steve Jobs was still running Apple Computer from his father's garage in Los Altos, Calif., in 1976 when he got his first call from Microsoft--offering to sell him a version of the BASIC computer language for the prototype Apple I. No thanks, Jobs said. His pal Steve Wozniak had already written a BASIC, and if they needed a better one, they could do it themselves over the weekend...
...want to see it get downsized, restructured or swallowed up. Netscape wasn't just another Silicon Valley software company, any more than Apple is just another computer maker. Netscape stood for something grand, something transcendental and empowering. It gave people the tools to communicate their ideas cheaply or sell their stuff to anyone on the planet without going through middlemen, censors, gatekeepers or even...
Almost half a century before Ray Kroc sold a single McDonald's hamburger, Ford invented the dealer-franchise system to sell and service cars. In the same way that all politics is local, he knew that business had to be local. Ford's "road men" became a familiar part of the American landscape. By 1912 there were 7,000 Ford dealers across the country...