Marriage Quote by Sumner Redstone

Redstone’s line lands like boardroom candor smuggled into the living room: a blunt cost-benefit verdict on an institution that’s usually wrapped in romance or duty. Coming from a businessman who spent decades buying, selling, and wrestling control of companies, “divorce” reads less as scandal and more as strategy. In deal terms, a bad merger doesn’t become noble because the contract is old; it becomes expensive because it’s old.

The intent is pragmatic, almost corrective. Redstone isn’t celebrating separation so much as puncturing the sunk-cost fantasy that endurance equals success. The subtext is that “marriage” can be a brand name for dysfunction: a neat label that disguises eroding trust, misaligned incentives, and the quiet tax of daily compromise turned sour. “Sometimes” matters here. He’s not preaching libertine freedom; he’s defending selective exit as a form of responsibility.

Contextually, the line resonates with Redstone’s world of high-stakes governance, where loyalty is prized but performance is non-negotiable. It also shadows his personal-life headlines and the broader late-20th-century shift in American attitudes: divorce becomes less moral failure than administrative reset. The quote works because it reframes the supposedly tragic act as an option with dignity, even relief. By comparing marriage to a failing enterprise, Redstone forces the uncomfortable question modern relationships often avoid: are you staying because it’s right, or because leaving would admit you were wrong?