Will Self Quotes

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

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

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.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

By using locally manufactured products, you will be able to help the small entrepreneurs in your area to a great extent.

When I was a kid in the '60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht's, JCPenney, the little retailers - they sponsored all my sports teams.

Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how this community has helped drive our economy forward through hard work and ingenuity.

You always help out a local businessperson.

Small business – the very fiber of our community life.

Buying food from farmers and people that I know adds that human element that I love.

We will be all about the local, not the global.

Small businesses are the backbone of Oklahoma's economy, creating a large portion of jobs in our state.

I like to support local record stores.

We know that trade doesn't just help Wall Street or even just Main Street; it also helps businesses on the side streets, such as Elston Avenue in my home district.

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