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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Quotes by Ernst Mayr

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

Quotes by Ernest Istook

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

Quotes by Erna Solberg

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Quotes by Erik Larson

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs...

Quotes by Erik Erikson

Individuals in very small groups are about the only thing that is free of the disease of the embedded growth obligation.

Quotes by Eric Weinstein

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Quotes by Eric Schlosser

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Quotes by Eric Maskin

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I...

Quotes by Eric Fellner

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

Quotes by Eric Bana

Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.

Quotes by Emmett Shear

When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and remember going to see the theatre production.

Quotes by Emma Healey

If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.

Quotes by Emma Walton Hamilton

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

Quotes by Emily Rose

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

Quotes by Emile Durkheim

The most wonderful thing about having a small business is that every person we dress gets a really intimate process.

Quotes by Emilia Wickstead

I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any...

Quotes by Elmer Davis

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

Quotes by Ellen Page

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Quotes by Ellen Tauscher

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes only talk about small in terms of size?
Not at all — "small" here ranges from company size to towns to personal ambition. One speaker even once thought a company was "a small company ripping off our copyrights," before it turned out to be a much bigger deal than expected. For more on how scale plays out in the working world, see Business quotes.
What do these quotes say about small towns?
One is blunt about it: "Small towns are the worst for getting recognised." It's a candid take on how a smaller community can limit visibility or opportunity, at least in this speaker's experience.
Is being small always seen negatively in these quotes?
No — one turns it into something aspirational: "I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles." Here, "small" describes an exclusive, admirable group rather than a limitation. If you'd rather explore the opposite end of scale, Big quotes covers bigger ambitions too.
How does this collection compare small and great?
One quote draws a direct contrast: "Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." It suggests smallness here is linked to pettiness, while greatness is linked to generosity of spirit. Explore that idea further in Great quotes.
Is there a common thread tying these small quotes together?
Mostly that "small" is relative here — it can mean underestimated, limiting, exclusive, or even petty depending on context, and these four quotes touch on nearly every version of that. For more everyday words examined from every angle, check out Always quotes.

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