Andrew Rannells Quotes

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

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

Small business is the backbone of America.

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

You always help out a local businessperson.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!

I do fantasize about having my own shop one day.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

As the metropolitan Atlanta area continues to grow, it's critical that we support small businesses and the prosperity of our local community.

I come from a small village.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

One day, I'll disappear and hide in a corner of Britain. I'll own a bakery in a village, live above it, have a big garden because I like mowing. I want to get up when I feel like it, let people queue for my products, and when they're gone, shut the shop and think about tomorrow. Creating magic - that's my dream. And I'll do it.

I wanted to help my sister, Latoya, because she's an awesome cook. She's one of the best culinary people I've ever met. She makes awesome cakes, so I was thinking about starting a little coffee shop cafe where she could sell them. I want to open a little, small, mom-and-pop place, but she can also do catering, too.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.