1.
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel Griffiths
2.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
4.
I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
Kevin Plank
5.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base
Gavin Newsom
6.
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
Marco Rubio
7.
What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
Ludwig von Mises
8.
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
Bernie Sanders
9.
Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
Reid Hoffman
10.
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, you're the government.
Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
11.
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.
Sue Kelly
12.
Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.
Robert Kiyosaki
13.
Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.
Arjun Rampal
14.
Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
Jack Ma
15.
In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.
Joni Ernst
16.
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
Christopher Bond
17.
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive
Gavin Newsom
18.
Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.
Greg Walden
19.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
Todd Tiahrt
20.
We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.
Marco Rubio
21.
I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
Mikhail Prokhorov
22.
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
Alphonso Jackson
23.
For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.
Nydia Velazquez
24.
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.
Chris Alexander
25.
You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.
Theo Paphitis
26.
Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.
Michelle Malkin
27.
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
Andrew Mason
28.
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
Karen Mills
29.
Youve got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.
Jon Tester
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Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.
Demetri Martin
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Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.
Tom Vilsack
32.
You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.
Lena Dunham
34.
Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.
Jamie Dimon
35.
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
Mitt Romney
36.
Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.
Doc Hastings
37.
I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.
Sher Valenzuela
38.
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
Ken Livingstone
39.
Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
Michael K. Simpson
40.
For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
Valerie Jarrett
41.
What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.
Hillary Clinton
42.
In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Karen Mills
43.
Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.
John Boehner
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Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.
Mitt Romney
45.
Obamacare is destroying our businesses, our small business and our big businesses.
Donald Trump
46.
I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
Rick Scott
47.
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.
Grover Norquist
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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
Michele Bachmann
49.
If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.
Philip D. Reed
50.
When it comes to bullying small businesses, Donald Trump is the poster boy.
Hillary Clinton