Small Business Owner Quotes

My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and made sure he was taken care of by overseeing the sale of his businesses, but after that, I was able to dedicate myself to politics. It's what I had always wanted.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.

You always help out a local businessperson.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I'm a sign painter with no boss.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

Dad was a baker, and Mum was tied up with church and the social club.