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.
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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
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I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
Kevin Plank
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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
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
Reid Hoffman
10.
Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.
Robert Kiyosaki
11.
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.
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Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.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
13.
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive
Gavin Newsom
14.
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
15.
We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.
Marco Rubio
16.
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
17.
Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.
Arjun Rampal
18.
Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
Jack Ma
19.
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
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The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
Christopher Bond
21.
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
Alphonso Jackson
22.
For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.
Nydia Velazquez
23.
I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
Mikhail Prokhorov
24.
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
25.
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
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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
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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
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What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.
Hillary Clinton
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Karen Mills
30.
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
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Obamacare is destroying our businesses, our small business and our big businesses.
Donald Trump
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I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
Rick Scott
34.
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
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If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.
Philip D. Reed
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When it comes to bullying small businesses, Donald Trump is the poster boy.
Hillary Clinton
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
Karen Mills
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Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.
John Naisbitt
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Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
Melissa Bean
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You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.
Donald Trump
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This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
Solomon Ortiz
44.
I thought I wouldn't enjoy the business side of music, but it's fun because it is completely - like running a DIY venue was the same exact thing but just on a smaller scale and a DIY tour is the same thing. You're just running a small business. Like we live within the paradigm of capitalism. Even if I'm going in playing these anarcho spaces, I still have to buy gas.
Dan Deacon
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Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.
Hillary Clinton
46.
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills
47.
We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.
Mike Pence
48.
We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.
Hillary Clinton
49.
In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
Dan Lipinski
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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
Karen Mills