Quotes About Long-term

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

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

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

long; team ministry is the higher pathway. Are you in this for the long haul or just the short run? To judge a city or build one up?

If his conversation is more about your physical qualities than your goals in life, he's not thinking long-term.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

If we are delighting customers, eliminating unnecessary costs and improving our products and services, we gain strength ... . On a daily basis, the effects are imperceptible; cumulatively, though, their consequences are enormous. When our long-term competitive position improves as a result of these almost unnoticeable actions, we describe the phenomenon as "widening the moat.

In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.

When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can.

In work relationships it is important to recognize that business and personal issues are frequently tied together. "Smart companies know that the individual's ability to create relationships" is the engine that drives value.4 Trusting each other's motives is critical to success, both in the moment and over the long haul.

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.

Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people—particularly children—with respect to motivation?

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.

From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.

Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.