Tom Douglas Quotes

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

You always help out a local businessperson.

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.

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.

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

Iowa's small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities and the engine behind our economy.

I try to support local traders. The service makes up for any extra cost.

As a consumer and a mom, I've always been interested in local products.

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

Supermarkets must not eliminate the individual retailers and market roads like the Northcote.

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.

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.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

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

In America, small business is a big deal.

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

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

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.

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.

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

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.

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

I have ice cream every week. Maybe twice. I live for ice cream, but not just any ice cream. It has to be locally sourced and usually somewhere I can walk to.

I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.