Mike Quigley Quotes

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

Trade creates jobs.

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.

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

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

Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

The economic importance of small businesses in Mississippi has always been significant, and it's well positioned to increase.

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.

Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.

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

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.