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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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Economy
Engines
Small Business
Businesses
Engine
Small Businesses
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Care
Concern
Health Care
Small Business
Status Quo
Businesses
Quo
Small Businesses
Status
Untenable
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The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
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Agency
Morale
Valued
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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Credit
Crunch
Crushed
October
Small Business
Businesses
Capital
Small Businesses
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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Cash
Needs
Pockets
Businesses
Pocket
Primary
Small Businesses
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Enormous
Jewels
President
Saws
Jewel
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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Giving
Loan
Want
Water
Troubled
Waters
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Businesses
Compete
Small Businesses
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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
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Outcomes
Businesses
Great Deal
Small Businesses
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Faster
Great Success
Paperwork
Small Business
Turnaround
Want
Businesses
Small Businesses
Streamlined
Successes
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
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Important
Important Things
Needs
People
People Important Know
Ubiquitous
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Assisting
President
President Obama
Priorities
Term
Unions
Domestic
Manufacturers
Union
Second Term
Vowed
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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Chains
Competitiveness
Critical
Economic Growth
Entrepreneurship
Businesses
Small Businesses
Supply
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Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
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Advice
Giving
Mentoring
Needs
Businesses
Capital
Small Businesses
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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Accomplished
Crisis
Lending
Recovery
Fill
Gap
Programs
Recovery Act
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We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
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Critical
Businesses
Tremendous
Gotten
Recession
Small Businesses
Understands
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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Abuse
Agency
Closing
Fraud
Masquerade
Small Business
Waste
Businesses
Contract
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Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
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Health Care
Pool
Health Care More
Businesses
Small Businesses
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The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
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Backs
Banks
Billion
Portfolio
Nearly
Businesses
Invest
Directly
Lend
Loans
Small Businesses
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Administration
Investment
Program
Small Business
Tools
Entrepreneurs
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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Guarantees
Loan
Program
Recovery
Bank
Recovery Act
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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Contracts
Government Agencies
Agencies
Billion
Businesses
Responsibilities
Small Businesses
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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Cash
Liquidity
Momentum
Worker
Businesses
Hire
Small Businesses
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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Counselor
Structure
Bone
Businesses
Checked
Hour
Small Businesses
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I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.
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America
Belief
Core
Important
Small Business
Successful
Businesses
Compete
Family Business
Operate
Provided
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After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
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President
President Obama
Seamless
Staying
Term
Transition
Years
Administrator
Confirmed
Ensure
Second Term
Successor
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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Jobs
Opportunity
Access
Advice
Contracting
Mentoring
Small Business
Successful
Capital
Creates
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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Access
Activity
Gaps
Provide
Zero-Sum
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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Small Business
Work Business People
Businesses
Engine
Net
New Jobs
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I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
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Awards
Creation
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Job Creation
Testament
Wide
Array
Event
Hire
Industries
Participate
Plays
Recently
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I recently had the opportunity to participate in 'Inc.''s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
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Jobs
Opportunity
Awards
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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Impact
Loses
Main Street
Millions
Businesses
Creates
Located
Net
New Jobs
Quarter
Small Businesses
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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Agency
Allowing
Fees
Guarantees
Loan
Recovery
Rolling
Stimulus
Eliminate
Ended
Fill
Gap
Manner
Raise
Rapid
Recovery Act
Reduce
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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Agency
Job Creators
Owners
Bang
Buck
Creators
Deliver
Mission
Stand Up
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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
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Borrowers
Engaged
Levels
Maintaining
Management
Oversight
Risk Management
Activities
Time Government Believe
Saves
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Access
Credit
Saved
Survived
Traveled
Billion
Businesses
Believe I Believe Me
Believe Me Country
How Many Times
Market
Small Businesses
Surprised
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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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Opportunity
Access
Critical
Hands
Immigrants
Minorities
Providing
Thinking
Banks
Businesses
Owned
Plays
Veterans
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Candy
Dinner
Dinner Table
Engaged
Machines
Manufacturing
Businesses
Conversations
Factory
Family Business
Floor
Happening
Table
Textile
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