Long Run Quotes

#1. My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.

Richard Simmons

#2. Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Ron Schiller

#3. People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

Barbara Deming

#4. In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#5. Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.

Sarah Dessen

#6. Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

Jon Katzenbach

#7. The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run
down.

Paul McCulley

#8. This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Mark Zandi

#10. It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

John George Nicolay

#11. Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#12. We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces.

Pope Francis

#13. I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

Ronda Rousey

#14. In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Joseph Heller

#15. Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

Peter L. Berger

#16. Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

Ben Stein

#17. Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.

Md. Mujib Ullah

#18. To a recognizably Christian culture, like Shakespeare's, Jesus Christ is the Logos incarnate, the Word made flesh. He exemplifies the good of having a body. In the long run, that is why Aquinas could baptize Aristotle and why the West could produce Shakespeare and Michelangelo.

William Shakespeare

#19. The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

Pete Wentz

#21. I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Richard Benjamin

#22. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

John Williams

#23. Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them ... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

Brian Harvey

#25. No matter what happens, everything will be all right in the long run.'

Dean Koontz

#26. Xxx you can't escape yourself, and you're the only thing that hurts you in the long run.

Max Gladstone

#27. In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Janet Yellen

#28. IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Ambrose Bierce

#29. In the long run, we are all dead!

John Maynard Keynes

#30. The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Lewis Mumford

#31. If you chance upon a big, gray cate, you probably owe him a favor. Even if you do not remember the favor,do it, anyway. In the long run, you will do it, but it will be far less painful if you do it up front.

Julie Kagawa

#32. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#33. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

Robin Morgan

#34. In the long run, every love needs someone to witness and acknowledge it, to validate it, or it may turn out to be just a mirage.

Paolo Giordano

#35. Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success ...

Swami Vivekananda

#36. You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

Gordon Brown

#37. In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.

George R R Martin

#38. In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Benjamin Graham

#39. Maybe that's how it starts. You stumble upon something that helps you cope, fills a void. Makes you feel something different than what you currently feel. You know in the long run it probably won't be good for you, but you do it anyway. Tell yourself you can handle it.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#40. I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

Rory MacDonald

#41. Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

Robert A. Heinlein

#42. The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

E.B. White

#43. It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Wyndham Lewis

#44. A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Martin Feldstein

#45. We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Joshua Ferris

#46. In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Paulo Coelho

#47. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away ...

Agatha Christie

#48. Voters thereby prove themselves bad and indeed corrupt judges of such issues and often they even prove themselves bad judges of their own long-run interests, for it is only the short-run promise that tells politically and only short-run rationality that asserts itself effectively.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#49. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#50. In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

William Ellery Channing

#51. The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

Ben Bernanke

#52. Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.

Ross Garnaut

#53. its easier to hate so you won't get hurt in the long run.

Patty

#54. The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

John Wooden

#55. I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn't think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn't hold it against them in the long run. We couldn't afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

Kiera Cass

#56. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

Robert A. Heinlein

#57. Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

Harvey Pekar

#58. [...] something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

David Lagercrantz

#59. You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

Kim Harrison

#60. Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#61. Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.

Steve Allen

#62. While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I'm optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in the long run.

George Brock

#63. Whenever out on a leap of faith, things have never turned out as I had imagined, but in the long run, things have always turned out better. Faith is a powerful force and one that creates incredible blessings.

Bronnie Ware

#64. In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

Galcher Lustwerk

#65. If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Arthur C. Clarke

#66. Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.

Mervyn King

#67. Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Joel Osteen

#68. I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

Autumn De Wilde

#69. What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

Shashi Tharoor

#70. I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.

Isaac Asimov

#71. In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

Bruce Barton

#72. Improving your abilities in high-priority areas is always a good investment in yourself that will pay off in the long run.

John C. Maxwell

#73. It is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Phyllis Bottome

#74. Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

Matt Perman

#75. I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

Lesley Manville

#76. In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

Thomas Sowell

#77. My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

Seth Klarman

#78. Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Alfred Marshall

#79. Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

Lois Capps

#80. I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

Ben Carson

#81. I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Kate Seredy

#82. There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

David Harvey

#83. When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

Robert A. Heinlein

#84. War's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run.

Mary Renault

#85. In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

Stephen Covey

#86. Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.

Ronald Reagan

#87. Once the tires start to wear out the better car will prevail eventually. It might take a little bit of time, but eventually it will be the best. That's why everyone is trying to make their car good on the long run.

Joey Logano

#88. If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

Warren Buffett

#89. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#90. If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

E. M. Forster

#91. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

Christina Aguilera

#92. My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Dennis Conner

#93. A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Camila Alves

#94. In the long run, a treadmill's a great investment.

Jarod Kintz

#95. I might not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but I lasted longer and provided more light in the long run.

Patricia H. Graham

#96. The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.

Ben Bernanke

#97. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.

Gregory David Roberts

#98. The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.

David Malouf

#99. Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Felix Dennis

#100. The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Bill Squires