Small Business Quotes - Page 2

• Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Entrepreneur, Design

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• Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

  Biz Stone

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2010

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• Leadership is not for the faint of heart

  Bill Hybels

  Heart, Adoption, Spider Man

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.4, Tyndale House

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

  Philip D. Reed

  Doe, Arms, Economic

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• Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

  Reid Hoffman

  Entrepreneur, Individual

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

  Demetri Martin

  Important, Tiny

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2012

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• Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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• Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Economy, Bigs

  "Michele Bachmann Speaks To NPR". Interview with Mara Liasson, www.npr.org. June 29, 2011.

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• Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Economy

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• I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Want, Helping

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  Karen Mills

  Want, Great Success, Faster

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• Never let your small business make you small-minded.

  Brendon Burchard

  Brendon Burchard (2011). “The Millionaire Messenger”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

  Celinda Lake

  Want, Six, Workplace

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Relief

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• Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

  Melissa Bean

  Cards, Credit, Form

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• Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Clueless, Complicated World, People

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• In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

  Susan Griffin

  Men, Age, Chivalry

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• Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

  David A. Siegel

  Men, Wish, Nerves

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• The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Needs, Loan

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

  Dick Cheney

  Mistake, Thinking, Unemployment

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Differences, Entrepreneur

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• Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

  Tory Burch

  Support, Entrepreneur, Helping

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• Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

  Jeff Landry

  Jobs, Oil, Example

  "Landry takes on fellow incumbent" by Adam Snider, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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• 5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Citizens, Care

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