Scott Jacobs Quotations

Right now the largest company we're working with is about $70 million in sales and 600 employees. I was contacted by LTV Steel a couple of years ago, when they were going down, and the program simply isn't large enough to be beneficial to those folks.

I could spend $13 million in my region. There's certainly that need there. I could spend $13 million in each of the individual states we service.

If I were a citizen protester, I wouldn't want people reporting on me, and we don't. ... Ground Zero has had a regular protest activity at the Bangor (submarine base) front gate. We don't collect on any one of those individuals out there. They are exercising their rights and are peaceful demonstrators.

We have to be able to identify specific business lost to foreign competition. What that means is we have to contact customers or ex-customers.

Established companies are existing community assets. They're time-tested, and largely what happens with small companies is they're hit with a sudden change in import competition that they don't have the internal capabilities to respond.