Quotes About Long-term

I ended up learning magic because you can't trust the British to keep to an agreement over the long term.

Soviet intelligence was playing a long game, laying down seed corn that could be harvested many years hence or left dormant forever. It was a simple, brilliant, durable strategy of the sort that only a state committed to permanent world revolution could have initiated. It would prove staggeringly successful.

It did his career no longterm damage, but Dudley Clarke's strange episode of cross-dressing remains an enduring mystery.

If we acted, nobody would thank us. But if we did not act, who would? Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

leaving the buyers who had lent at longer maturities holding the bag.

lower long-term interest rates (to stimulate spending and investment) and raise short-term rates (to protect the value of the dollar, supposedly).

These longer-term rates are not under the Fed's direct control. Instead, they are set by participants in financial markets.

With little room to cut the funds rate further, how could we put downward pressure on longer-term rates?

Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3

The rapid metabolism and lack of active metabolites of zolpidem, zaleplon, and eszopiclone avoid the accumulation of plasma concentrations compared with the long-term use of benzodiazepines.

Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

I think if you want to go into politics, you have to take a very long-term view with regards to what you want to achieve. You can't make changes in just a short time.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

You know what, I'm just grateful to be offered relatively long-term contracts for as long as a year at a time.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

I'm still committed to the success of the U.K. and the belief of the strong intelligence and passion and determination of the British people. I'm a strong believer of their long-term historical success.

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.