Top 100 Business Small Quotes
#1. Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.
Richard Branson
#2. We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.
Michael Monroe
#3. Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
Howard Schultz
#4. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.
Warren Buffett
#5. Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
Paul Graham
#6. We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect.
Elisabeth Egan
#7. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka
#8. 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.
Rick Perry
#9. I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
John Mackey
#10. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
#11. The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
Brad D. Smith
#12. It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
Seneca The Younger
#13. But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'
Sidney Lanier
#14. Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
#15. Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.
Nicole Fende
#16. Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
#17. I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
Randy Hultgren
#18. When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.
Meg Whitman
#19. Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.
Paul Hawken
#20. Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.
John Van Hamersveld
#22. 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.
Oliver DeMille
#23. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#24. I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. 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
#26. When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
Bart Stupak
#27. What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#28. Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential.
Debbi Fields
#29. I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#30. The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
Karen Mills
#32. As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.
Sue Kelly
#33. When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck
#34. He'd been filling up his Suburban - a feat that required a small business loan at current prices - and had missed Shanna's call.
Blake Crouch
#35. We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
Maria Semple
#36. A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
#37. The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#38. 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
#39. I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
Jane Krakowski
#40. In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#41. With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for.
Diane Helbig
#42. This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
Karen Mills
#43. Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
Daymond John
#44. I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.
Tom Latham
#45. I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
P. J. O'Rourke
#46. 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
#47. It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
Jeff Merkley
#48. We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.
Diane Hendricks
#49. In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.
Peter Diamandis
#50. There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron
#51. Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?
Trevor D. Richardson
#52. Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea
Stewart Friedman
#53. We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.
William J. Clinton
#54. Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
Pete Domenici
#55. As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
Jack Markell
#56. I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.
Majora Carter
#57. Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
Andrew Mason
#58. In today's media environment, invisibility is a fate much worse than failure for any business large or small.
Peg Samuel
#60. It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs.
John Liu
#61. 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
#62. There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
Queen Elizabeth II
#63. You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they're looking for!
John Di Lemme
#64. On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
Igor Luksic
#65. Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
Timi Nadela
#66. Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You're going to see all these people again.
Steve Ross
#67. We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.
Jim Barksdale
#68. What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#69. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Laozi
#70. Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.
Tom Vilsack
#71. Don't get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.
Linda Rawson
#72. He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially
not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
Stephen King
#73. No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.
Strive Masiyiwa
#74. The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
Mary J. Blige
#75. 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
#76. My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
Susana Martinez
#77. In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.
Octavia E. Butler
#78. Healthcare is very much a high priority for me. Healthcare is also a huge issue for business, both big and small.
Jon Tester
#79. 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, your the government.
Lynn Townsend White Jr.
#80. [L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs - meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.
Peter H. Diamandis
#81. 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
#82. As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
Kevin McCarthy
#83. If you don't laugh reading this book I'll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?
Nicole Fende
#84. There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
Sam Walton
#85. Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.
Sherree Mongrain
#86. Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
Chip Conley
#87. A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
Irwin Schiff
#88. Update a traditional element of your business with social media designs. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are hot right now, and leveraging their popularity can make your business stand out, be memorable, and seem fresh and up-to-date.
Anita Campbell
#89. We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park Geun-hye
#90. Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
Jack Ma
#91. What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
John Di Lemme
#92. Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.
Nicole Fende
#93. We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
George Pataki
#94. Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#95. That is the casualty of life in a small town. People scoop into your business, then hand out cones to anyone who asks for a lick.
Barbra Annino
#96. Customer is a very important key factor that every establishment big or small MUST recognize in other to succeed.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#97. I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
Valerie Jarrett
#98. The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay ...
Ed Rollins
#99. 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
#100. It used to be that the big eat the small; now it's the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.
Daniel Burrus
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