Small Business Quotes - Page 9

• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• 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

  Texas, Dust, Enron

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Keys, Feet, Important

  "Peter Orszag and Sen. Judd Gregg on 'FNS'". FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2009.

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• The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

  John McCain

  Confidence, Cutting, People

  "Sen. John McCain Talks Economy, Elections, Immigration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

  John Pople

  Running, Moving, Important

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• One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

  Dennis Hastert

  Writing, Requirements, Way

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• 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

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "The Morning After: Randy Hultgren Discusses His ‘No’ Vote on Debt Ceiling". Interview with Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

  Pete Domenici

  Jobs, Moving, America

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• We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Dad, Mind Your Own Business, Sausage

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• A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  Remarks by the President to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 19, 2001.

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• As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

  Melissa Bean

  Impact, House, Mind Your Own Business

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• 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

  Kansas, Generations, Building

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• Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

  Dave Ramsey

  Thinking, Long, Cost

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• The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Jobs, College

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

  Kay Hagan

  Jobs, Government, Needs

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

  Sandy Adams

  Recovery, Innovation, Taxation

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• The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Jobs, Government, New Job

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• I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Technology, Innovation

  Source: time.com

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• The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Years, Needs

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• After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Government, Leader

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• Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Sight, Feelings

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• When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Determination, Self, Employment

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• 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.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  Doc Hastings

  Years, Six, Lifetime

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, America, Energy

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