#small

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. ↗

— Robert Spector

#entrepreneurship #small-business #business

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses. ↗

— Sheryl WuDunn

#money #small-business #women #business

He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in movies, with swelling music and giant gestures and running through the streets to catch a departing train. It wasn’t the kind of love that Byron or Shakespeare wrote about, with flowery language and hyperbole and iambic pentameter. It was still and deep, like water that you might mistake for shallow if you just watched the surface. It was entirely his, not dependent on her own feelings for him, and it would still be there whether she, or him, or everyone else on the world disappeared. It was a subtle kind of love, but it was true. ↗

— Jake Christie

#love

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#body #easy #humor #inspirational #intends

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

#become #controlling #desire #dominant #great

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. ↗

— David Baltimore

#answer #contexts #different #does #evident

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#cannon #else #hate #i #nothing

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small. ↗

— Zola Budd

#back #changed #few #fuss #happened

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances