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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 didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.

A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.

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

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

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

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not important what happens where; Where we fall or rise, What we conquer or lose, How big or small we are.

Don't ever reject a smallwhen you can't take it all.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

_Amongst these legends of dragon hoards,Where secret, precious things are stored,There golden nugget and diamond shard,There treasure-keeper hoped to guard.As bolted doorway securely braced,hoping its treasures to ever hold,hoping beyond when time grows old,So stood the keeper in its place.A statue of unrelenting stanceStill stands victim to happenstance,For treasure-keeper did not bargainon a bit of chance and a bit of dwargen_- Dwenzuak the dwargen

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.

Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective.