11/ 21/ 2005
“I hope we can hang on until we get help.”
- Michelle Sutton, who owns three furniture stores and a tire store on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, on waiting for the Small Business Administration to process her disaster loan application, in the American City Business Journals
“I try not to think about $1 million. I’m just enjoying moving from my garage to here.”
- Bill Lasher Jr., who moved his business, Lasher Sport, into its first warehouse space, in the Anchorage Daily News
“It is easier, we found, to work with a small business because they are so flexible.”
- Gene Tilley, general manager of procurement contracts for the Tennessee Valley Authority, in the Knoxville News Sentinel
“It was either do that or let someone else go. Our choices were extremely limited. We were looking at a 35 percent increase.”
- Linda Gold, CEO and president of M3iworks, on why she no longer pays all expenses for dependent coverage for her 16 employees, in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
“A small business can provide much better service and more personal service as opposed to other service providers. You can’t beat Wal-Mart on price, you can’t beat them on volume, but you sure as heck can beat them on selection, quality and service.”
- Larry Lucero, the director of the Texas State University Small Business Development Center, in the Houston Chronicle
“If we don’t put together a good package to hold on to people, all we’re doing is training them for our competition.”
- John McCloskey, owner of J. Francis Company, on the struggle to keep good employees from being wooed by bigger companies, in the Pittsburgh Business Times
“Small businesses are the economic engine that run this country, but we’re treated like second-class citizens when it comes to health insurance. It’s a matter of fairness.”
- NFIB Executive Vice President Dan Danner, on why the Senate should pass Small-Business Health Plans.
