Long-Term Viability Quotes

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

I believe that at some point we should come up with a business model that would make us sustainable.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

Our failed population-centric approach to Afghanistan has only led to missed opportunities, which is why Afghanistan depends on donors for 90% of government revenues. A smarter, trade-centric approach will boost Afghanistan's long-run viability by weaning it off donor welfare dependency.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in my position that are like me: they have an opportunity to make a lot of money early in their career, and they do that, and after that, there's nothing to sustain that. There's no art or interest in your craft from the people that want to see you.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

If an institution has not made it after 10 years, it shouldn't be around anymore.

I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

To me, the word profitable means sustainable - able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence.

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.

I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So when push comes to shove, there actually aren't that many great businesses that can go public. Because I think if you're going to thrive as a public company, it presupposes that you make more money than you spend.