Birol Comments on Small Business & President-Elect Obama

A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama

Internationally-known business consultant, Andy Birol, releases this statement about what this election means to small business owners:

“As you take power for what is the most remarkable statement our country has made in ages and having run the best campaign ever, we know you are taking over what will be the worst job in the world.
We want your optimism to be contagious and your can-do-attitude to inspire us
We are terrified you will tax us and hold us up as scapegoats, while we are survivors
We are hopeful you will see us as family leaders, not large corporate thieves
We love your dreaming but worry we are not included in those dreams
We are one-third democrats, one-third republicans and one-third independents(1)
We want to give people jobs but aren’t sure we can carry them
Lastly, it’s always been lonesome as a small business owner and we have no expectations that government will help us. We love our country and want to see it, and you, succeed.

While the entire world is holding their breath as to what an Obama victory really means to them, fear, uncertainty and doubt have already gripped most small business owners. From losing or maxing out their credit lines, to fearing that consumer demand will simply dry up, entrepreneurship is in upheaval.

Whether they voted for you, believing that a recovering middle class will lift all small business ships, or voted against you, fearful that the new burden of regulation, health care costs and increased taxes will torpedo their plans, business owners are downright scared and thus become inactive or at the very least stop expanding.

In closing, President-Elect Obama, we as business owners are fearful of the harm you can bring to our small businesses yet we wait with bated breath to see if you can deliver your promises and help us continue our American dream of successful entrepreneurship because ‘Yes, we can.’”

For the complete version of A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama, visit www.birolsblog.com.

Andy Birol authored The Five Catalysts of Seven Figure Growth (CareerPress, 2006) and has advised over 400 business owners. Visit www.andybirol.com.

(1)2007 Fortune ZOGBY Poll of Business Owners

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