As a small business, I have to compete with the larger businesses, so in reality I hire very few people for minimum wage anyway.

I think that in reality, the benefits that we have to come up with to get skilled workers or entry-level workers are a burden on our profits in the first place.

When you are a small operation and try to compete with larger rivals in price, you often find yourself bleeding red ink.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

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.