Author: Karen Mills

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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

- Karen Mills

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

- Karen Mills

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

- Karen Mills

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

- Karen Mills

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

- Karen Mills

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

- Karen Mills

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

- Karen Mills

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

- Karen Mills

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