Chapter 5

Selected Quotes

· “Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.”

-Henry Ford

· “To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.”

-Chinese Proverb

· “Banks will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.”

-Mark Twain

· “Small businesses may still fail in prodigious numbers, but the small business owner is clearly the winner—an American folk hero, a source of jobs and growth, a role model, a cultural icon . . . the entrepreneur has been transformed . . . into a courageous taker of risks.”

-Bernard Wysocki

· “Women-owned business is the largest emerging segment of the small-business market. Women-owned businesses are an economic force that no bank can afford to overlook.”

-Teresa Cavanaugh

Director of the Women

Entrepreneur’s Connection

At BankBoston