Business Longevity Quotes

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

I always try to be the Madonna of wrestling in that she always changed her look and her style, but she always stayed true to herself as an artist. That's the best way to have longevity in this business, for sure.

You have to build businesses for longer term.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

I love the wrestling business. The wrestling business will never die. It will be around forever.

'Triple D' is not going anywhere. I enjoy highlighting my brothers and sisters in the business.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

You can have a good run for several years with one company and then be able to extend it with another.

I have been in the business for 62 years. It's a match made in heaven.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.