your success traranscends the busineness. how you get t attention of people to create so much buzz? >> personal approach is so essential. i am pasassionate about what i do and it shows. social medea helps. i also hadad some earrinings on oprah. that was wonderful. so word of mououth. again, a ery personal approach. >> another difficulty as a small-business is hohow you convince it is still accessible for every woman who wants to buy jewewelry but things it is not something sheet should buyuy for yourself? >> again socia networkrking. i am l learning on-the-job. facebook twitter. i just grded tweeting. people really do take notice. >> you have cvinced women to splurge on themsmselves. >> absolutely. i think jewelry is like candy in a way. mymy drive is t keep it rereasonably priced and a beautiful, and the class. i think it shows. >>we always like to ask smamall businesses what mistakes you made or what you learned the hard way. >> one of the mistatakes is there are no busine h hours and more especiallyly being an entrepreneur. i starte working4/7. i have three childldren and a husba

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for "frost/nixon," and he is out with a memoir, talking about many of the people he has met in show busins. his book is called, i love this, "dropping names: famous men and women as i knew them." >> it is good to be back. tavis: you were doing the media around for the "frost/nixon," and as we do with all of our guests, when they leave, we give them this month. it has our show logo on it, "tavis smiley." he goes back to his hotel room, staying here in los angeles, one of the bungalows you were staying at. you're staying at one of the bungalows, and you go back and take the mug with you, and "the new york times" magazine comes in to do a photo shoot with you, and i had seen you and others, and leave it to one of my people who calls me at home on a sunday morning and says, "have you seen the "the new york times" magazine today? and i said no, and he said, "we are in it." i opened up the magazine. he told me to turn to the page with frank langella, and you are sitting there, and my mug is in the shot. >> do you know how unimportant that is to me? tavis: but it is very important to me. >> the m

i was with one woman who runs a busine business. says her husband runs the business and she's the chief executive. he lost his job years ago and he took a class in upholstering. and now they have 40 people working for them making upholstered products. i was in one factory. and as i recall a couple hundred workers, it was norm burns' factory. i went into his office. he as plaques of his patents. he has electrical products. i asked him where he went to garage scraduate school and eng. i said where did you get your undergraduate degree? didn't do that either. just an entrepreneur and by virtue of his skills and experience, he was able to build a business. another man who lost his job or left it in an advertising agency. he and his son decided to make a business building amplifiers for electric guitars. i marvel at the entrepreneurship. it's driven our economy to be the strongest in the world. but the last three and a half years haven't been so good. these have been tough times. we have had 38 straight months with unemployment above 8%.

that's 30% of our busine. weoved into areas likeata centers through acquisitis. we're growing 90% in this area, gaining market share. >> rose: what's interesting, you talk about acquisitions. what percentage of acquisitions do you believe will be and make the contribution you expect them to do. is it 60, is it 70, is it more or less? do you have a number. >> yes, i do charlie. when you first start to do something other people have not done you want to study it and understand what you should do differently. 90% of acquisitions and high tech fairld. if you de-- failed it. if you design it by did you increase market share after acquisition, did you get out your next generation product, did you keep your engineers because my industry not like some industries that you're buying for customer preference or geography, i'm buying people to become part of our family and get the next generation product out. so 90% fail within the industry. if you use that definition and i think many of my peers would probably agree with that. and probably between 60 and 70% of ours have bee

we've got to get over the fear of making a mistake and originate loans in a normal busine businesslike way. the underwriting standards themselves, you know, have -- particularly by banks on non-fannie and freddie and fha loans have been jacked up to a level which basically is saying we don't want this business. and i think -- you know, i don't want to have the government telling them what their rules should be, but they need to look themselves. a lot of these banks are in shock about what's happened to them, because a lot of them didn't know anything about the mortgage business when they bought a lot of these companies. so this whole thing has been a great revelation to them. the next step in servicing, we talked a lot about that, we've got to get a handle on how we can the turn the modification process into something that's much more streamlined, get the ideology out of it. i understand the moral questions. i understand the moral hazard issues. i understand that the reo -- but all we're doing is depressing value for everybody. everybody's wealth has gone down as long as this is here.

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the syrian rebels the fears the busines demands from guarantees they lay down weapons before damascus still calls its own suits more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have submitted applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. and moscow vows to secure the return of victor boot after a u.s. judge sentences the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans. midnight in moscow live match resurvey new today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. the un back peace plan for syria could be an deadlock hours ahead of a cease fire deadline rebels have refused to give damascus any guarantees they'll lay down arms before the government troops pull back our middle east correspondent paula sneer has the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just hours after the syrian forward of a crazed sports such explanations what the syrian regime is asking for is con

rest of the world have to deal with the situation ok as we have it today not as we would like to do busines it sounds like an accidental mess for everybody. i absolutely agree it's not. exactly the same thing i think i agree entirely with peter's narrative i think it was something that went awry and it's happened in terms of going back to a previous question about the merits of security versus democracy and so on be the see an orgy henri. has been remarkably unsuccessful at securing clearing the territorial integrity of mali which is what they went for which is which was the original reason for their justification for that and you can see this because they can negotiate with the m.l.a. that he. sought negotiation in the past and as a way in which he can see war in the north and uprisings in the world as part of a part of a long ago station which has been taking place sort of fifty years between. governments and accept this. so it is an accidental situation but they. failed dismally in getting a security they can't negotiate and they won't be negotiated with and they can't be a negotiation i

the syrian rebels with ease the busines demands for guarantees they lay down records before damascus of course its own suits more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have now submitted their applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. at moscow valves to secure the return of victor boot that's after a u.s. judge sentenced the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to think of conspiring rather to kill americans. for the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me rory soon shy the u.n. backed peace plan for syria could be in that block just days ahead of a ceasefire deadline the rebels have refused to give the mask loose any guarantees they will lay down arms when the government troops withdraw our middle east correspondent paula slayer house the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just always after the syrians look forward at a crazed force such explanatio

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the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 295. the nays are 118 with two voting present. the journal stands approved. members will please clear the well and take their conversations from the floor. if members will please clear the well and take their conversations from the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. mica: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legisla

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