Year III September-October 2011 n. 5
in san marino
C ONTENTS
INFORMATION MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO
INTERVIEW Marco Arzilli, Minister for Industry Trade Register Guida Titano 2012 Club Estero Members’ area Internet and companies
San Marino at the Expo 2010 Shanghai: the City-State San Marino all’Expo di Shanghai 2010: la Città-Stato
E DITORIAL Massimo Ghiotti - General Manager
I cannot help believing that the world would be a better and happier place if we’d learn to talk more about what’s right than about what’s wrong. We have so much to celebrate! Michael R. Parry
We are continuously overawed by information and messages: speeches, radio, TV, newspapers, books, magazines and emails. And there are so many words which every day penetrate our heads - suffice it to think that in just an hour a conference speaker uses about 6,000. This is however perhaps the first time we have heard so many negative words all together, and as we know, negativity brings more negativity. What can we do then to remain positive and focused on our goals when everything around us makes us think that things could worsen? How can we imagine our garden full of flowers next spring if all we talk about today is weeds? We must try and eliminate the negative mes-
sages we receive and be more careful of our inputs, but above all, we can try, every morning, to fill our minds with positive messages and readings. We can try and focus more on the stories of those who manage to move ahead, even in the midst of the storm rather than on those who created the storm, causing us to risk going down in the same boat. Let’s look at those that have made it and continue to move on. Let’s look at the companies which, amid the crisis, manage to resist and ask ourselves why. Let’s try and emulate the excellencies. The best way to be creative is to ask oneself the right questions and find the answers to them and not try and find answers to wrong questions. Let’s not try and find answers as to why our company has closed down, let’s ask ourselves what skills we have acquired, what we have learnt and how we can make the best use of it, in a new job, whatever it is. San Marino is still full of captains courageous
ready to let us jump into their boats to row along a course which has been well traced for some time – the course of well-being of the company as a whole, to be travelled with perseverance, humility, honesty, in a quest for efficiency and quality. We have never before encountered as many companies in difficulty as we have at present and we feel so sad about it all, but what does comfort us is to see the courage they have in tackling the crisis and the fact that they consider the Chamber of Commerce as a partner able to provide advice, from how to invent a new job, by setting up a new company in a cuttingedge sector, to how to try and extend their sales abroad. And this makes us proud to work for San Marino companies and their captains courageous. So here’s wishing “Good sailing to all our companies!”; our goal will always be to represent a beacon for you all, providing constantly innovative services and signals so you can always find us in the midst of the stormy sea.
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