What modern career doesn't require some knowledge of business? Whether you are working for a large corporation as a professional or working for yourself as an entrepreneur, you will need to know the basics of managing your own finances, using data on spreadsheets and databases, and writing effective documents among other basic business skills. For more information about the Business department, click on the link below:

Business Department

Welcome to the Research Guide for Business 101

Introduction to Business

This guide is designed to assist Business 101 students researching business information through the use of online and print resources, either those which the LCC Library provides, or that are freely available on the Internet.

Before you get started you may want to view the two introductory tutorials featured below.

• Deciphering your Assignment
• Developing a Topic

Learn to deconstruct an assignment to its basic parts and identify appropriate resources to successfully complete it.

Learn to develop an appropriate topic for a research paper

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

- Peter F. Drucker

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

- Harvey S. Firestone

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

- Lee Iaccoca

 Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

- W. Edwards Deming

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett