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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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• 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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• 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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• One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Boss, Way

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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• For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

  Richard Attias

  Jobs, Issues, Employment

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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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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• Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

  Arjun Rampal

  Father, Fire, Born

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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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• 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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• 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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• Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

  Simon Kuper

  Football, Oil Business, Stupidity

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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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• 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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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

  Ron Wyden

  Oregon, Innovation, Use

  "We Can’t Take the Internet for Granted" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Sight, Feelings

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• I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

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• I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

  Bill de Blasio

  New York, Struggle, Opportunity

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

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• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Dad, Mind Your Own Business, Sausage

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• Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

  Anthea Turner

  Running, Home, Like You

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• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  Hanna Rosin

  Men, Opening Up, Entrepreneurship

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• We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

  Fred Upton

  Growth, Expansion, Tape

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