Quotes About Small business

For individuals and small businesses, scenarios are a way to help develop their own gut feeling and assure that they have been comprehensive, both realistic and imaginative, in covering all the important bases.

That's what America's all about. Entrepreneurs who can start a business in their basement and have it grow into a global company - that's exactly what we want.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.

Jobs are created by businesses, especially small and mid-sized businesses.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.

I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

I used to work selling ice lollies and sweets on the road. I worked at a car wash as well.

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

My father's diner, the Jefferson Coffee Shop, was a simple, 27-seat affair in Washington D.C., open for breakfast and lunch - coffee and eggs in the morning, cold cuts and burgers in the afternoon.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

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.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

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

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

If an individual owns a small business, the equity-oriented nature of the private holding argues for a lower equity position in the investor's financial holdings. Investors benefit from taking the broadest view of their financial circumstances.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.