Daily Inspiration Quote by Alphonso Jackson

There’s a quiet reprimand baked into Jackson’s line: the problem isn’t the economy, it’s the way people picture it. By starting with “what most people don’t understand,” he positions himself as the adult in the room, correcting a national misconception that policy debates and media coverage often reinforce. We talk about “business” as if it’s synonymous with Wall Street, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and headline-grabbing mergers. Jackson pulls the camera back to the strip mall, the contractor, the family-run shop that actually makes the numbers add up.

The phrasing does two strategic things. “Bulk” is blunt and quantitative; it claims empirical authority without needing to cite a statistic. “In this country” wraps the argument in civic common sense, suggesting that recognizing small business isn’t just economically accurate but appropriately American. The subtext is policy: if the bulk of business is small, then tax structures, lending rules, regulation, and federal contracting should be judged by their real-world effects on smaller operators, not by how they land with corporate giants who can absorb complexity.

As a public servant, Jackson is also doing coalition work. The sentence flatters small-business owners as the true engine of the nation while nudging skeptics to reframe what “pro-business” should mean. It’s a line designed to shift the default audience of economic policy from investors to employers, from abstract markets to people with payroll to meet on Friday.