But entrepreneurs need to be performance athletes when it comes to business building.
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The Dutch, who are among the greatest international business building nations in history, have been doing this for hundreds of years.
After the war he went into business building homes for returning veterans.
Stuart Bailey runs a family business building boats and replica aeroplanes.
By putting an emphasis on hiring a partner on the premise of what they believe will give them more control, and sacrificing a priority on brilliant business-building ideas and great talent, clients who consolidate their business are inflicting a crippling blow to their ability to compete.
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Frazier yanked long-term earnings per share guidance in order to fund research and other business-building projects.
There's a lot at stake here for many people beyond Detroit and the business of building cars.
The modern twist begins when you utilize the mastermind concept as a profitable marketing and business-building tool.
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With our three fundamental ingredients in place, we can go about the business of building a great company.
Such competitors as Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki are siphoning off leftover business, building handsome and solid Harley look-alikes.
Now Kael went about the business of building a structure in the rubble.
During the 1830s, U.S. states got into the business of building railroads and canals, and they all lost money.
That's consistent with how it runs its phone business, building smartphones that use either Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
America's armed forces have been heavily engaged in anti-Taliban operations and ambivalent about the separate business of building a new, ethnically-diverse state.
Foster Wheeler could hedge its exposure to fossil fuels by buying its way into the business of building nuclear power or desalination plants.
Beating the odds, he made it big in the shoe business, building Nine West Group and selling it to the public in 1993.
And the company does all this while steering clear of the messy business of building its own handsets or running its own chip fabs.
From their books to their blogs, their philosophy of providing simple, user-friendly software and practical business-building strategies is woven into every product like DNA strands.
As people have ever greater choices about with whom they want to do business, building trust with your customers is the surest path away from commoditization.
The stock market has also been a boon to many Chinese companies, which have jumped into the business of building everything from solar wafers to finished panels.
But Invesco also felt that BAE had good prospects as a stand-alone business, building up its security operations and exploiting further defence contracts in the Middle East.
In the cool air of their hilltop fastnesses, the toings and froings on the Mesopotamian plain are distractions from the serious business of building a viable Kurdish entity.
The report, which cited an unnamed source, is in line with Apple's usual practice of outsourcing the gritty business of building its products to big contract manufacturers in Asia.
Other veterans seek new adventures from taking on a new business to building a team of globetrotting veterans who use skills learned in combat to help after a natural disaster.
Now, with Purpose, my team and I are in the business of building and sustaining social movements around major global issues, and thinking about how that translates to collective consumer power.
If your business is building products, why divert from your core competency to develop in-house software tools when you can hire a company like Salesforce.com to deliver the services you need from the cloud?
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"This is a great opportunity for us to address the challenges that we face with our existing brewery and to reinvigorate our business by building a new modern and efficient brewery, " Richard Bailey, Thwaites's chief executive, said.
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"Though Ted was relentless in business and building this company over the years, he was also very much a family man, " said Vice-Chairman Phil Lind, who worked with Rogers for over 40 years, in a company statement.
Akamai even turned the trick into a profitable business by building a network of servers situated within the networks of other companies into a sort of meta-network, which it uses to speed the delivery of its client's content.
The money and the visibility will help, but it will be up to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman to get up tomorrow and the next day and the next and get to the real business at hand: building a business.
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