Small Business Quotes - Page 13

• There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Benefits, Bills

  "Small-Biz Killers: Who Pays for Jobless Benefits?" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 08, 2010.

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• In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

  Jim Blasingame

  Voice, Humanity, Age

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• Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Jobs, Government, Numbers

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• The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Numbers, United States, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  People, World, Married

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• This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

  John McCain

  Needs, World, Unions

  "Sen. McCain talks Syria, Iran and tensions with Pakistan; Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic institutions vs. Obama administration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2012.

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• As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

  Tim Scott

  Mom, Strong, Jobs

  "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

  Tom Allen

  Business, Community, Backbone

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• If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

  Glen Mazzara

  Running, Weekend, Needs

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• For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

  Tony Abbott

  Mean, People, Motivational Sales

  "Tony Abbott pledges to make superannuation payments easier for small business". www.news.com.au. June 03, 2011.

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• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

  Gavin Newsom

  Book, Pressure, Building

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• People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

  Reid Hoffman

  Careers, People, Matter

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• I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

  Kevin Plank

  Positive Thinking, Bigs, Thinking

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• In America, small business is a big deal.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Bigs, Deals

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• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

  Anthony Weiner

  Law, Squash, Community

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• If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Giving

  Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government, www.youtube.com. September 14, 2012.

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• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

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• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Dream, Strong, Wall

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• Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

  Karen Mills

  Giving, Advice, Needs

  "Small Business chief sees small firms as vital to recovery". Interview with Laura Petrecca, www.usatoday.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Friends say the real John Boehner nothing like his 'insider' image" by Padmananda Rama and Brianna Keilar, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.

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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Country, People

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• We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned. We're Republicans."

  Susana Martinez

  Hands, Lunch, Issues

  New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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