Quotes About Long Term

#1. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#2. If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.

Jeff Bezos

#3. In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Richard Attias

#4. I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.

John Niven

#5. And you don't even know my family. We're like rabies, we fester, make you go crazy, and most of the time, my mother is foaming at the mouth. So please tell me your family is like a heart attack.a nice, quick death instead of long term torture.

Inda Herwood

#6. Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. There are lessons for long-term relationships in the way that Manet approached asparagus.

Alain De Botton

#8. Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Reed Hastings

#9. We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Aaron Ciechanover

#10. I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Stephen Chow

#11. Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Michael Burgess

#12. Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal.

Robert Paul Weston

#13. Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

Novak Djokovic

#14. I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

Danny Meyer

#15. The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

W. Edwards Deming

#16. I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

Charlemagne Palestine

#17. One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

Buzz Aldrin

#18. It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ...

Adrienne Rich

#19. You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Daniel Snyder

#20. Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.

Mark Weiser

#21. Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

George Osborne

#22. It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

Daniel Akaka

#23. I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

Jerry Yang

#24. Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty- the realities of access to water and food- which create the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources and that is going to accelerate in the future.

Rajiv Shah

#25. We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Pete Coors

#26. I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.

Adam Richman

#27. The lack of short-term stress results in a lack of long-term health. When you always protect a human body from harm, you grow it to be fragile.

Jurgen Appelo

#28. Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Warren Buffett

#29. Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Narendra Modi

#30. I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Cecelia Ahern

#31. Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

Dana Rohrabacher

#32. Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion.

Dan Brown

#33. Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

Seth Klarman

#34. Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

John C. Maxwell

#35. Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#36. So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

Seth Godin

#37. I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

Tom Cole

#38. I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Corey Feldman

#39. Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

Tom DeMarco

#40. I've struggled with many forms of mental illness since I was a kid, but clinical depression is a semiregular visitor and anxiety disorder is my long-term abusive boyfriend.

Jenny Lawson

#41. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Oli Anderson

#42. And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

Richard Morris

#43. I don't want my children to obey only because they fear consequences or worry that Mom will lose it. I want to know their hearts understand and grasp the joy to be found in doing the right thing. This requires parenting through the daily grind with a long-term mentality.

Courtney Defeo

#44. Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

Sigmar Gabriel

#45. Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.

Stephen Kinzer

#46. If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

Tony Buzan

#47. Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.

Julia Cameron

#48. One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.

Rudy Giuliani

#49. Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Charlene Li

#50. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Mark Zuckerberg

#51. Punching goblins, replied Sprockett soothingly, while offering short-term relief, has no long-term beneficial value

Jasper Fforde

#52. Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small ... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

Tom Wigley

#53. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind.

Sarah Ockler

#54. We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

Roger G. Ibbotson

#55. Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Liya Kebede

#56. We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#57. Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So

Robin S. Sharma

#58. High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

Willard C. Butcher

#59. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.

Nick Vujicic

#60. There's obviously more of us than there is men, so that's why its important that you feel like its someone you want to be with long term. You should make it impossible for a man/woman to want someone else providing all the things within reason.

Gabrielle Dennis

#61. My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

Louis Navellier

#62. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.

Robin York

#63. In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

Luis De Guindos

#64. What do you want to know?
Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D
I'm 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I've had one long-term serious relationship ...

Arden Aoide

#65. The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

Larry Craig

#66. So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.

Michael Scheuer

#67. We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

John Phillips

#68. We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

Bill Bradley

#69. Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

George Friedman

#70. For long-term true success we mush rethink and change our mindset from only valuing "happiness" to include Well-being as the foundation.

Tony Dovale

#71. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.

Ryan Holiday

#72. When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

Katarina Witt

#73. Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?

Jonathan Marks

#74. In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia

#75. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Joseph Barbera

#76. Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Patton Oswalt

#77. A Nelsonian solution provides a simple, predictable way to share without limit or hassle over digital networks, and yet doesn't destroy middle classes in the long term.

Jaron Lanier

#78. For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

Marianne Williamson

#79. In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Bill Gates

#80. If I'm super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it's not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes.
We're screwed.

Susan Ee

#81. We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Heather Wilson

#82. The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Michael Burgess

#83. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.

Lisa Cleaveland

#84. The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Anthony Lewis

#85. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

Martin Rees

#86. Maybe I just find long-term relationships to be interesting because I've never been in one or seen one that works well without getting fucked up in the end. Sometimes it seems like people are incapable of normal relationships anymore

Santino Hassell

#87. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Richard Benyo

#88. The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Will Self

#89. Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Peter George Peterson

#90. What's the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Tony Hsieh

#91. I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

Petter Stordalen

#92. When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.

Bradford Winters

#93. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.

Anastacia Marx De Salcedo

#94. And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

Sheryl Sandberg

#95. In a larger business context, an example of the "Genius of the And" would be a company's constant attention to both long-term growth and quarterly results.

Peter Pande

#96. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.

Jeff Sessions

#97. Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

Fred DeLuca

#98. All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Gary North

#99. Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

Evan Davis

#100. In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

Benjamin Graham