Quotes About Long-term

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Mathematically, interruptions didn't matter, because my lifetime of playing was just one long series of hands, and chopping it into sessions and playing them at various times and in various casinos should not affect my edge, nor the long-run amount I could expect to win. This principle applies in both gambling and investing.

Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history is our long-term history. Despite all our fantasies and pretensions, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world.

Dado que el mundo es de una complejidad pavorosa, una buena historia de ficción lo simplifica y lo hace inteligible. La ficción ayuda a largo plazo a poner las cosas en su sitio. Al final, lo que sabemos de las sociedades lo sabemos a través de ella a lo largo del tiempo.

Better than living in a home bought on a long-term loan is often staying in a rented, small house for a year or so.

Many players like mfgrs/traders enter into any business not by looking into its long-term growth potential or probability, but by seeing it as an opportunity to make huge gain or bumper profitability in a short term. This herd mentality is going on since time immemorial and that's what called a stupidity

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

But if we get our souls saved, we go to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking long-term.

We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we get our souls saved, we got to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking *long-term*.

I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.

Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

The long-term effects of privatising both rail and housing, aside from ensuring we live in a country of crumbling infrastructure (in contrast to mainland Europe), is one of diminished social and personal opportunities.

When you think about a new platform, what will define it as a long-term success are the ongoing range of games and experiences that come to the platform - not what's available on Day One.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

You cannot have lasting success if you are only looking for short term gains.

I'm always a big-picture kind of gal. I always think in the long term, and I like to see things through from beginning to end in my head.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

I was with my ex-husband for eight or nine years, and we became good friends. I met him at university, and our relationship ended. We are still good friends.

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

How long's your vacation? A year. Maybe longer. A year? What did you do? Win the lottery? Most americans we met on the road, or at least the ones without nose rings, had a hard time fathoming the idea of a year's travel. Australians and Germans would nod in of course approval. Our country men would fixate on language barriers or some hideous tropical disease. They'd talk about the nightmare scenario - a Third World appendectomy and not being able to tell the doctor to use clean needles.