Perseverance and perspective guide Busey, DRG to success
Phil Busey (Courtesy photo)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The
Journal Record Legacy Award recognizes lifetime achievement in leadership, honoring a prominent business figure leaving a legacy through his or her work in Oklahoma. The 2021 winner is Phil Busey Sr., and his accomplishment will be celebrated virtually on June 28. The Legacy Award presentation is part of the 12th annual Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs & Financial Stewardship Awards event, where 28 CEOs and two chief financial officers will be acknowledged this year.
Busey is founder, chairman and CEO of Delaware Resource Group in Oklahoma City. After practicing law for more than 25 years, he founded DRG in 2002. Experiencing 8,000% growth since inception, DRG is one of the largest defense contractors in the region, working with companies such as Lockheed, Boeing and the Air Force. DRG employs 850 people in the field and expects to be at 1,000 employees by August 2021.
Phil Busey
Guest columnist
As history goes, a mere 245 years have passed since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, not long compared to the rise and fall of prior great civilizations. The Roman Empire lasted over 1,000 years, but fell because of controversy, division, moral decay and complacency within. All great civilizations and empires have fallen. History shows we must be ever vigilant. We are no exception. Our fate is dependent on what we do. If we do not learn from our past, we are destined to live it.
Lincoln said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, it will be because we destroyed it ourselves.” Upon completion of our constitution, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what we had. His reply, “You have a democracy Madam, if you can keep it.” So, it is today. We are always just a generation or less away from this greatest of democracies faltering if we do not bring ourselves together. We must unite with one common purpose, larger t