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Jim Goodnight


Recent Articles about Jim Goodnight

Ask James Goodnight, founder of CEO of SAS

Do you need advice on creating a progressive company culture that fosters innovation? Ask James Goodnight, founder and CEO of software company SAS, by ema...  Read more

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Do you need advice on creating a progressive company culture that fosters innovation? Ask James Goodnight, founder and CEO of software company SAS, by ema...  Read more

Higher Ground

Some Inc. 500 CEOs from the 1980s explain how if you don't act fast, your successful business might out grow you.  Read more

James Goodnight, SAS

for saying no to Wall Street (repeatedly) and yes to the people who really matter  Read more

How SAS Continues to Grow

James Goodnight’s software company, SAS, appeared on Inc.’s first list of fast-growing companies, in 1981, and it has grown every year since. He...  Read more

25 Years. 7,900 Companies. One Enormous Impact

For 25 years, the most exciting companies in America have been getting noticed here. Microsoft, Timberland, Jenny Craig--glad to be of service.  Read more

EU Continues to be One Big Dysfunctional Economic Family

New treaty promises a lot for the future and fixes exactly none of the problems which are threatening the world economy.  Read more

Revolutionary Roads: Mapping America's Innovation Capitals

30 tales of following where the spirit leads  Read more

Editor's Letter: A Salute to the Builders of Great Companies

Here’s to the people who create jobs, and to the people who fill them.  Read more

The Inc. 500 Honor Roll

You could write the book on business growth from the strategies of the companies that have made the INC. 500 five years running.  Read more

Why Can't Salespeople Be More Creative?

The sales profession has been left behind. Countless books and articles have been written about fostering creativity amongst engineers, product developer...  Read more

Google Eyes Twitter and Two Reasons to Hire Now

Twitter and Google in acquisition dance . That's t...  Read more

Laima Tazmin

We love her because she's a lot like other kids--and then again...  Read more

Ask James Goodnight

The founder of SAS explains how to be progressive on a budget.  Read more

Growth Is in Overdrive on This Year’s Inc. 500

Companies that create jobs create the future, as Inc. 500 companies have been proving for 30 years. See these people here? Now it’s their turn.  Read more

Jeff Bezos

We love him because "optimism is essential."  Read more

A Helping Hand With Taxing Matters

Inc. asked 12 small business owners to evaluate the most popular tax advice Web sites.  Read more

A Helping Hand With Taxing Matters

Inc. asked 12 small business owners to evaluate the most popular tax advice Web sites.  Read more

What Politics Taught Me About Business

Why running for mayor inspired Glen Lang to start a business.  Read more

Snapshots: Hall of Fame Overview

Here's a survey of 30 of the 48 companies in the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame -- an elite group of companies that have appeared on the list at least five t...  Read more

What It Takes to Break Through

An excerpt from Keith McFarland's eagerly awaited new book on how companies move beyond the entrepreneurial stage. Watch the grapefruit spurts!  Read more