Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
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.
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.
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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.
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
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.
For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.
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.
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous.
From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.
