Million Small Businesses

Famous quotes containing the words million, small and/or businesses:

    Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China’s 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank.” This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.
    Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    Westron wind, when will thou blow?
    The small rain down can rain.
    Christ, that my love were in my arms,
    And I in my bed again.
    Unknown. Western Wind (l. 1–4)

    One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)