Hello! My name is Quenton Pulliam. I'm one of the fellows at the left, the two-legged one on top. The four-legged one on the bottom is Chip, an Appaloosa horse, and one of my favorites. We're at Dale Hollow Lake below Red Oak Ridge. This is what I do for stress relief and mental health!

My experience is primarily in business ownership and management for the past thirty-odd years, having owned and operated several retail and wholesale businesses. I have earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in business, economics, and education. Additionally, I have completed approximately thirty hours of graduate work beyond the master's degree. I claim no expertise in anything because that could get me into trouble; however, I remain active in the business community and continue to read about and study the fascinating world of business. I hope this background provides me with the knowledge and ability to assist you as you navigate through our course.

The business world is a particular interest of mine since the subject is relevant to our lives on a daily basis. Sometimes it's difficult to see how the business, economic, and political events reported in the various news media affect us personally, but they do. I think a worthwhile goal for our course is to help each of us improve our business and economic literacy and understanding. Achieving this goal will give us the tools to interpret the daily business and economic events in our cities, states, country and the world and to realize how we are affected by them. I hope that we are able to take an abstract subject, demystify it, and apply it to the contemporary issues which concern us all. Please call on me if I may be of assistance with any aspect of the course.