Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create…

The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

— Sam Graves

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the…

— Grover Norquist

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

— Melissa Bean

If you don't need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations to go public are not there in the same…

— Mark Zuckerberg

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

— Bobby Seale

Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product…

— Brian Chesky

I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital…

— Kabir Sehgal

At the worst possible moment, when your fund is down because cheap things have gotten cheaper, you need to have capital, to have clients…

— Seth Klarman

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune…

— Tom Golisano

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

— Aneel Bhusri

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a…

— Ross Levinsohn

Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small,…

— Richard Branson

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

— Esther Dyson

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall.…

— Greg Ginn

Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We…

— Lonnie Johnson