09/ 27/ 2005
"I built the exact company that I wanted to work in.”
- Tim Ransom, owner of brand development and graphic design firm, The Ransom Group, in the Memphis Business Journal
“It’s something our dad’s always taught us—if you want something, you’ve got to work for it.”
- John Ferguson, owner of Walton Universal Performance, on how growing up in a small-business family shaped his view of business today, in the Enquirer (Cincinnati)
“When you’re a business owner, you don’t get any sick days because you’re always working. But I have no regrets. Where else can I go and do what I love while being my own boss?”
- Helen Campbell, owner of 4025 Yoga and Wellness, in the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Va.)
“I think every small business needs to be on the Internet. If they don’t have a Web page, they need to have a blog. And a blog is just so much easier to deal with, you don’t have to learn any of the technological stuff.”
- Denise O’Berry, small-business consultant, in the Sun-Sentinel (Fla.)
“You have to realize that no[employee] is perfect. Be willing to work with people. An advantage of a small business is that an employer can craft the job around the employee and make new expectations.”
- Joe Kennedy, entrepreneur and author of The Small Business Owner’s Manual, in the Courier-Post (N.J.)
