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Small Quotes

Big ideas about being underestimated.

Several of these small quotes come from people describing being dismissed early — a company written off as minor before it grew, a hometown that never gets credited. If scale itself interests you more, the Big collection makes the opposite case.

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When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

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Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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I am small. I was always small. But only physically.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand...

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

Always Quotes

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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Quotes by Aesop

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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Quotes by Aesop

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Quotes by Aeschylus

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Big Quotes

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We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.

Quotes by Adi Godrej

Others use the word to describe standing apart from convention rather than physical size, and one older line frames small speech as narrow-minded rather than short. Compare with Great quotes or Business quotes for related angles.