Emeril Lagasse Quotes

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

Having individuals who are prepared to work is helping small business owners succeed and expand.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.

Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

Prosperity comes slowly.

During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, including high-tech and traditional manufacturing, health care, information technology and finance. Some are homegrown New Mexico companies; others are global leaders in their industries.

In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.

Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.

Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

Chipotle was wildly successful, and I thought, 'Well, let me open one more.'

Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.

Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong.

Indiana will always be open for business, and we look forward to welcoming more great new jobs into our state.

There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start jobs, making it easier for businesses to grow and create more jobs. That has historically been the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party.