In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.
What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.
For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.
I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.
Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U. S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.
Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.
Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.
In America, small business is a big deal.
Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.
Youve got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.
We need to repeal Dodd-Frank [act]. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.