Joel Salatin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

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.

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

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

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

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.

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

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.

Small business – the very fiber of our community life.

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

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.

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

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

Small business is the backbone of America.

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