08/ 01/ 2004
“We need your help to get the word out about an affordable, patient-centered, provider-driven, physician friendly system. AHPs are an idea whose time has come.”- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist speaking to NFIB members at the NFIB National Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C.
“It’s costing us far too much for delivery, and we really cannot pass it along to the customer; that’s the tough part. We used to have free delivery and now we have to charge. When it’s possible, we are asking customers to pick up their orders.”
- Gloria Dyer, owner of Gloria’s Floral and Basket Designs, on the high price of gas in the Rockdale Citizen (Ga.)
“When I hear the perception that if you are a small business, you have to go to a small bank, that’s flat out not true.”
- Bank One’s Jeff Kunkel, on why he’s targeting small-business clients, in the Arizona Republic
“We’re trying to stop government from adopting laws that are onerous, so we can take our money and grow our businesses.”
- J. Guy Gaulin, owner of Hitchcock Press Inc., in the Republican (Mass.)
“We’re also seeing commitments for longer-term projects that go out as far as two years, which tells me people are more confident about the economy.”
- Harry Brown, president of Erie, Pa.-based small business EBC, on the state of the economy, from Reuters
"The role of the government is not to create wealth but to create an environment in which entrepreneurs can flourish."
- President George W. Bush speaking to NFIB members at the NFIB National Small Business Summit in Washington, D.C.
