Quotes About Long-term

When in doubt, assume that people will act according to their current irrational urges, ignoring information that runs counter to their beliefs, trading long-term for short-term benefits and most of all, being influenced by the culture they identify with.

When people quit, they are often focused on the short-term benefits. In other words, "If it hurts; stop!

The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.

Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment." Now that's good advice.

The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait.

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

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

Can we wake him out of it?" – Sundown "Well, you know, cowboy, that's a really good idea. Damn shame I didn't think of it, huh?" – Ren "Cut the sarcasm. And you're sure it's not a vision quest?" – Sundown "For the sake of our long-term friendship, I'm not even going to dignify that with the response it deserves." – Ren

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

Although much of what is written about finance would give a different impression, you are not providing funds for business investment by holding a company's shares, directly or indirectly. As I have explained, companies large enough to be quoted on a stock exchange are, overwhelmingly, self-financing. The relationship between the long-term investor and Exxon Mobil is one of stewardship.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Over the long term, however, too much adrenaline produces scarring on the insides of your blood vessels. These scars become magnets for molecules to accumulate, creating lumps called plaques. These can grow large enough to block the blood vessels. If it happens in the blood vessels of your heart, you get a heart attack; in your brain, you get a stroke.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

In the long term, the print revolution turned out to be a boon for Aristotle. His works could be studied by more readers than ever, in cleaned-up versions.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress. Which is exactly what you need to cultivate meaningful long-term change.

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

This is the problem with "long termism," a problem yoga identified more than two thousand years ago. When life's rap on the knuckles is not immediate enough to react as a deterrent, or the reward does not come fast enough to act as a spur, we tend to fell and act like children. We seek immediate gratification.

Look, I'm not expecting the establishment to suddenly open their arms to Donald Trump. But considering their own role in creating the long-term challenges that this president is now addressing, could they just show a little humility before embarking on their next Trump-hating rant?

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.

The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.