Brad D. Smith Quotes

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

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.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

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.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.