Quotes About Long-term

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.

To measure the yield curve I use Moody's Aaa Corporate Bond Yields as the long-term rate, and six-month commercial paper rates as the short-term rate. You can find these figures in government publications, Barron's, and other financial periodicals.

In moments of crisis it helps to take the long view.

But is this really going to be effective and worthwhile over a forty-year span?

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs. On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you soon won't have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the goose.

Dumas Malone says it perfectly: "Jefferson's vision extended farther and comprehended more than that of anybody else in public life, and, thinking of himself as working for posterity, he was more concerned that things should be well started than that they be quickly finished.

You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term discomfort.

The self-organized bacterial membrane that is Gaia has constantly, over very long time lines, increased the complexity of its structure in order to stabilize itself and to more effectively deal with perturbations to the system.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

speed and quality are allies in the pursuit of the customer's long-term benefit.

Sólo se puede crear algo sólido y resistente a largo plazo cuando se crean ecosistemas vivos de ideas y mecanismos para lograr que las mejores lleguen rápido al mercado.

You choose income stocks primarily because you want or need income now. As a secondary point, income stocks have the potential for steady, long-term appreciation.

To achieve typical longer-term financial goals, such as retiring, the money that you save and invest generally needs to grow at a rate much faster than the rate of inflation.

What does lasting value mean in a society that is only interested in immediate results? How should we judge a community that simply takes short term projects in account and merely looks at a short-sighted horizon? In point of fact, a clear vision goes beyond a misty horizon. Through its mental dimension, the quality of vision stands out to the sheer physical, geographical or time-based horizon. ("Horizon and Vision" )

Prolonged chronic malnutrition affects children for the rest of their lives because it affects both brain development and growth.

Most of our approaches to feeding children are too short term. We worry about the next five minutes when we should worry about the next five years.