Support Small Businesses Quotes & Sayings

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. — George Lakoff

Whatever healing work we each do contributes to the healing of us all. — SARK

Arriving on Bainbridge Island is the opposite of arriving in Seattle. When you got in your car and waited to unload off the ferry in Seattle, you saw the Space Needle, cars, and a mound of urban construction. Once you exit the ferry terminal on Bainbridge, however, it's mostly trees. Pine as far as the eye can see. Well, pines, firework and coffee stands, and eventually a casino. You drive through the Port Madison Indian Reservation when you leave the island. I couldn't help but smile as I went past the casino. I didn't really get gambling, since I'd never had money to throw away, but as I passed through all the beautiful countryside that I'm sure once belonged to the tribe, I sort of hoped they would rob the white man blind. Perhaps not politically correct, but the feeling was there all the same. — Lish McBride

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses. — Martha Stewart

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within. — Tory Burch

We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery. — Karen Mills

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. — Michael Bloomberg

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class. — Carly Fiorina

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. — D.H. Lawrence

The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget. — Jeffrey Nielsen

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God. — Ramakrishna

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses. — Jack Welch

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. — George Bernard Shaw

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object. — Claes Oldenburg

They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place. — Richard Thompson

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me. — Patty Griffin

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that. — Anne Campbell

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. — Al Franken

President Obama shopped at a book store to help support Small Business Saturday. He bought fifteen books. His tax policies and his health care law have been so brutal on small businesses the only way they can survive is if he shops there personally. — Argus Hamilton

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. — Frederick Douglass

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points. — Rich Lowry

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. — Sarah Price

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference. — Kenneth Chenault

I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things. — Cedric Richmond