Q: Presidents love to talk about small business, but were any of them entrepreneurs? — Mara
A: Indeed, if there is one thing that presidents are good at, it is talking about how important small business and entrepreneurship are to the American economy. Consider this small sampling of quotable quotes:
Barack Obama: "I think Ronald Reagan. .. tapped into [the fact that people wanted] a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
George W. Bush: "Prosperity results from entrepreneurship and ingenuity."
Ronald Reagan: "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
Calvin Coolidge: "The chief business of the American people is business."
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Author: Steve Strauss
