Andrew Mason Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I try to shop in every state that I go to.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

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.

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

I dedicate my store to my birthplace. People over there look very good and have got purchasing power, too, and I think since there are no fashion shops in Ghaziabad, they would want to visit my boutique all the more. And I don't play cricket for all 12 months. So when I'm not playing, I can spend my time looking after my business and develop it.

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

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.