Chart Of The Day

Marriage Business

Your marriage will likely outlast your startup:

From retail to gas extraction, none of the 19 sectors we looked at had an average life span longer than the average marriage. Management companies have the best survival rates, with 66 percent of companies formed in 1995 making it to the five-year mark (compared with 80 percent of marriages). Even locality didn’t make a big difference; no state had business-survival rates that came close to surpassing national ones for marriage.