Economists Credit Small Business 'Gazelles' With Job Creation

"Keeping the economy going and making sure jobs are available," President Obama told the audience at a UPS facility in Landover, Md., earlier this month, "is the first thing I think about when I wake up the morning; it's the last thing I think about when I go to bed each night."

If so, the nation's chief executive would be well advised to skip the counting of sheep and concentrate instead on gazelles.