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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Of the world's 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Valuable companies take decades to build.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

“If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would…

— Clayton Christensen

“We assume that multimillion-dollar companies are turning big profits, but it’s rare to find a truly profitable business.”

— Mike Michalowicz

“Many legacy institutions (like Kodak) once were able to make a great living resting on their laurels. According to Yale professor Richard Foster, in…

— Peter H. Diamandis

“A person is known by the company he keeps…especially if it is in the Fortune 100 list!”

— Ankala Subbarao

“According to various studies, only about 30 percent of businesses in the United States survive past their fifth year.”

— James Dion

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

— Sam Altman

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that…

— John T. Chambers

“big chunks of their sales careers to date have been during long seasons of economic prosperity.”

— Mike Weinberg