Quotes About Long-term

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Then you need long-term government bonds. Fifteen percent in intermediate term [seven- to ten-year Treasuries] and forty percent in long-term bonds [20- to 25-year Treasuries].

He smiled again and grabbed my arm. "It so simple," he said. Indexing is the way to go. Invest in great American businesses without paying all the fees of a mutual fund manager and hang on to those companies, and you will win over the long term!

So that was the rub. That the best chance for long-term growth and financial freedom is a well balanced portfolio that minimizes fees and taxes but that comes with risk.

When you do sell any investment held outside of a tax-deferred account (like an IRA), make sure you hold for a minimum of a year and a day in order to qualify for the lower long-term capital gains rate (again, at the time of this writing the rate is 20%).

Just" 1% here, 1% there. Doesn't sound like much, but compounded over time, it could be the difference between your money lasting your entire life or surviving on government or family assistance.

A portfolio of low-cost index funds is the best approach for a percentage of your investments because we don't know what stocks will be "best" going forward.

As a society, we're so focused on instantaneous gratification that our short-term solutions often become long-term problems.

It would be a mistake to judge it by any single year, rather we need to evaluate its overall long-term performance—like any other investment opportunity.

For the 20-year period from December 31, 1993, to December 31, 2013, the S&P 500 returned 9.2% annually, but the average mutual fund investor averaged just over 2.5%, barely beating inflation.

System consolidation, the process of transforming a short-term memory into a long-term one, can take years to complete. During that time, the memory is not stable.

We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than by faith to die with Christ to our old seductions, that is, to gain a distaste for them because of a superior satisfaction in God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God." Desiring God, 12.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.