Short Term Thinking Quotes

#1. Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Stephen Covey

#2. Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Daniel H. Pink

#3. I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

E. O. Wilson

#4. Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

Anthony Albanese

#5. The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

Rick Warren

#6. Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Tom Graves

#7. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#8. Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

Max Lucado

#9. Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly ...

Tony Hsieh

#10. Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money

Paul Krugman

#11. I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

Paula Poundstone

#12. Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

Charlie Munger

#13. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

#14. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#15. I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

Paula Poundstone

#16. Every action that you take - that your disorder tells you to take - is self-harming in the short and long term.

Priyavrat Thareja

#17. I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

Ann Widdecombe

#18. There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

Dara Torres

#19. People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

Robert Kiyosaki

#20. I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Noreena Hertz

#21. I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

Philip Green

#22. I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they've got a wonderful long-term plan.

Tim Berners-Lee

#23. We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Paul Gibbons

#24. I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#25. Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

William J. Clinton

#26. You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not "stocks", and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.

Warren Buffett

#27. I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

Carrie Brownstein

#28. I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.

Chuck Klosterman

#29. I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

James Sinegal

#30. I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of - it could become a landmark moment. He has now showed the media that he doesn't need them and that he has the people behind him.

Ryan Grim

#31. When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Daniel Kahneman

#32. I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

Chip Kelly

#33. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.

Manoj Arora