Peter Welch Quotes

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.

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

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Small business – the very fiber of our community life.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

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

I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

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

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

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.

Small businesses are the heart and soul of South Carolina's economy - from our bait stores to our restaurants and barber shops.

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.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

In America, small business is a big deal.

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

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.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.