To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large and small businesses, significantly reduce burdensome regulations, and unleash America's energy resources.
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community - small, medium, and large - to analyze and evaluate the impact that reform would have on them. It has been a very instructive and productive dialogue.
Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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.
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.
We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.
We need to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank. We need to make America fair again for all businesses, but especially those being run by small business owners.
It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.
Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
I'm a small businessman and I'm well aware of the uncertainties of the economy, exactly what the 'inflationary spiral' means when I'm forced to raise prices to my customers, and how taxes can eat into your earnings.
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
