Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
As quoted in Behold the Second Horseman (2005), by Joseph Lumpkin, p. 53.
“It’s hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.”
2010s <br class="br">Source: Austin Brown. " Geoffrey B. West, 'Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster' http://blog.longnow.org/02011/07/26/geoffrey-b-west-%E2%80%9Cwhy-cities-keep-on-growing-corporations-always-die-and-life-gets-faster%E2%80%9D/." at blog.longnow.org, July 26th, 2011.
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