Top 1200 Small Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

We can't leave small business owners to fend for themselves.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

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.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

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.

If you look at the Company Register, maybe that's what we should say to that business consultant or analyst. If you look at the Company Register with the Department of Trade and Industry, one of the remarkable things that you will see over the last few years is, in fact, the growth of small and medium business, many of whom depend on these services to succeed.

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the business afloat without ever getting ahead. And it's more than frustrating - it's heartbreaking.

I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.

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

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

Small business is America's engine of job creation.

My parents are conservatives. Owning a small business lent itself to that viewpoint.

The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

We came from a small village and there is no music business there.

Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

The solution is to change the cake recipe, and that's the way it is with government. We can start adopting policies that work and that encourage economic growth. If you got incentives for encouraging big business development but not small or medium business development, it's not going to work. It needs to work for all three.

The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.

Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

My husband and I are small business owners.

I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.

I left small businesses a little while ago and they were all complaining that Obamacare is putting them out of business. Not only the regulations, which are a disaster and the taxes, but Obamacare is putting them out of business.

When I ran a small IT services business in the 1990s, it had strong recurring revenues - yet I couldn't accurately forecast cash flow for even the next few quarters. Small changes in the customer base or losing/hiring a few key employees could create massive swings in cash flow.

I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.

Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire.

The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

I am a working mom with five daughters, a small-business owner - and a conservative.

Small business creates more jobs than large corporations.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

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

I understand small business growth. I was one.

In America, small business is a big deal.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.