Company Longevity Quotes

In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.

If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.

The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.

The foreign companies, especially oil prospects and development companies, have been in Nigeria for about two generations - 40 years and above and so on. So, they know the environment. They stayed that long. They continue to invest because they know the potential Nigeria has in oil and gas and the capacity of the people to learn and work hard.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

I'm fortunate to work for a company that supports investigative journalism with strong editors and lawyers. That's the benefit of working for a company that's been around for more than a century.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.