Small business owners are the backbone of the economy, and they often have to work twice as hard to get ahead. Unfortunately, some entrepreneurs have to deal with bullying from big businesses. Here are some quotes that describe how small business owners feel about being bullied by their competitors.

1. Attitude and Gratitude…always makes a different in your failure or success of everything you do in your life. — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
2. Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell
3. If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem! — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
4. Music is a good thing; and after all that soul–butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully. — Mark Twain
5. God is a mean–spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman
6. The USA approach looks like bullying because it is. — Salman Rushdie
7. Persistence is a writer’s best friend disguised as a bully. — A.M. McKnight, Goslyn County
8. If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem! — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
9. Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up. — Pat Buchanan
10. Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
11. Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up. — Pat Buchanan
12. He’s the bully that i knew my whole life. he’s the bully that i’ve always stood up to. — joe biden
13. There is no love in bullying the weak. There is no love in bullying the strong. — K.R. Royal
14. Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have? — Rupi Kaur
15. Live your dreams. Live your life to the greatest.The more you believe …the more you will achieve — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
16. I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully. — Tupac Shakur
17. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone. — Robert Kiyosaki
18. Stop Being Afraid Of What Can Go Wrong In Your Life & Start Putting Your Positive Energy Towards All That Can Go Right! — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
19. The fact that the WWE is so involved in anti–bullying, it’s really an honor to be involved with them. — Randy Orton
20. Bullying can leave scars that do not heal. — Megyn Kelly
21. Surround yourself with positive and productive people. — Renee Hines, Defeating Your Self–Bully: A guide to stop beating yourself up and start building confidence for a life you deserve
22. The left can’t win elections without lying and without camouflage and without masks hiding who they really are. So to get their way, they have to bully. — Rush Limbaugh
23. ‘it is culture that is the bully.”’ — Sharon Lee
24. Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! — Theodore Roosevelt
25. It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice. — Veronica Roth
26. God is a mean–spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman
27. Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have? — Rupi Kaur
28. Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Be the best you can be for yourself! — Susan Marie Murdoch, Iwogs Adventures in Bully Blues
30. Bullying happens at all ages and levels. — Ralph Macchio
31. Draco’s not really a bully. He’s not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He’s more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool. — Tom Felton
32. People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships — Sunday Adelaja
33. Kim: It means something, and when I do it, I don’t want to wake up in the morning, wishing I’d not done it. — Sam Crescent, Bully No More
34. Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy. — Natalie Portman
35. Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy. — J.K. Rowling
36. I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance. — Venus Williams
37. Experience is the best teacher. — Penelope Douglas, Bully
38. Stop Being Afraid Of What Can Go Wrong In Your Life & Start Putting Your Positive Energy Towards All That Can Go Right! — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
39. Be the best you can be for yourself! — Susan Marie Murdoch, Iwogs Adventures in Bully Blues
40. ‘put down that bottle and pickup an Oreo instead…you”ll live longer! #JustSaying’ — Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
41. The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me. — Patsy Cline
42. The White House is a bully pulpit. — Theodore Roosevelt
43. As a wiseman once said: If you failed miserably today…try again tomorrow for it’s a brand new day! www.bullyingben.com — Timothy Pina
44. Surround yourself with positive and productive people. — Renee Hines, Defeating Your Self–Bully: A guide to stop beating yourself up and start building confidence for a life you deserve
45. Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up. — Pat Buchanan
46. Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
47. The fact that the WWE is so involved in anti–bullying, it’s really an honor to be involved with them. — Randy Orton
48. Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. The fact that the WWE is so involved in anti–bullying, it’s really an honor to be involved with them. — Randy Orton
50. I think the biggest misconception about me probably is … I don’t prey on the weak. I ain’t a bully, but I ain’t no saint, either. — Suge Knight