Small Business Quotes - Page 2

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

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Entrepreneur, Design

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Government, Corporations, Businessman

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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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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

  Sue Kelly

  Country, Law, Income

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• The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer's needs. If you've got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular.

  Ben Cohen

  Keys, Needs, Growing

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Economy

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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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• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  California Coast, Oregon, White

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• Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Owners

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 02, 2013

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• If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Receiving, Lobbyists, Income

  "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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