Foundation Quote by Philip Anschutz

For business to survive over a long period, it needs to be contributing to society and people's well-being. Otherwise, who's going to want it?…

— Charles Koch

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits…

— Peter Cundill

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

— N. Robert Hammer

You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the business and…

— Kevin Kinsella

You have to build businesses for longer term.

— Steve Jurvetson

Valuable companies take decades to build.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

— Peter Drucker

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

— Skitch Henderson

Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as…

— John C. Bogle

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable…

— Paul Achleitner

In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them aligned to…

— Dominic Cummings