Small Business Quotes - Page 4

• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

  Melissa Bean

  Impact, House, Mind Your Own Business

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• When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Determination, Self, Employment

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

  Geoff Davis

  Jobs, Creating, Red

  "As Economy Limps Along, Obama Touts Efforts Ahead of Crucial Midterm Elections". www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2010.

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• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Mean, Cutting, Class

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Important, Cost, Minimum Wage

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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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• It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

  Karen Mills

  Jobs, Successful, Opportunity

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Class

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, America, Credit

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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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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• 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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• The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Keys, Feet, Important

  "Peter Orszag and Sen. Judd Gregg on 'FNS'". FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2009.

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• The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

  John McCain

  Confidence, Cutting, People

  "Sen. John McCain Talks Economy, Elections, Immigration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

  Dennis Hastert

  Writing, Requirements, Way

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• Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

  Pete Domenici

  Jobs, Moving, America

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• Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

  Joyce Banda

  Hero, People, President

  "Joyce Banda: 'I want Malawians to say our country became a better place'" by Lucy Lamble, Nick Francis and Marc Francis, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

  Jim Cooper

  Doctors, Average, Ideas

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