As part of a regular monthly gathering with business people and entrepreneurs I am involved with, the whole board of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry were invited to mingle with us, and more importantly to share with us their plans and outlook in their latest term in office which brought in a number …
Yippeee! I stopped over this afternoon at the new Jassim’s garden centre, opposite Bahrain Motors on the Budaiya highway and man, was it worth it! It absolutely floors the competition; they’ve got everything under one very modern roof. Well stocked, plenty of medicines if you need them, good selection and reasonably priced garden tools and …
“success” is quite relative it seems…
I just sent a comprehensive quotation to a customer and strongly recommended that they do not buy what I quoted them! How about that? I fully believe that the customer is not always right. Most, in fact, are technologically challenged, and like children, they believe everything they hear from a “fast” salesman or from brochures …
Half a million! And not a single red fils for budding businessmen and their small businesses. Half a million! And businesses still have to finance the government to the rate of 5% on every project undertaken by way of that stupid “performance bond”. Half a million! And the government itself does not have any faith …