Quotes About Success

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

A lot of people don't believe in me. They think I'm too small for heavyweight. Just like a lot of people told me long ago that I shouldn't box. That I wasn't going to make it. I just knock my head and say I'm capable. I can do it.

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.

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

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.

I've always loved small business.

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

My husband and I are small business owners.

Small business is big business in the state of Alabama.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

Having individuals who are prepared to work is helping small business owners succeed and expand.

As a small business owner myself, I understand what it is like to scale up a business in the early years.

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

I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful.

I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.