Quotes About Long-term

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

[The] stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.

There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

If you invest $464 in a good mutual fund every month from age thirty to age seventy, you'll end up with more than $5 million.

Over the long term you get what you deserve, and none of us like it when what we deserve is pain.

Wealth-building is a crockpot, not a microwave.

It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

A year of intense exercise and watching what you eat will likely change the trajectory of your life physically. You will melt away fat, tone up muscle, feel better, and change your habits, likely for life. But only ten days of that exercise program won't move the needle on the scale. To create big-time success you have to stay focused and stay intense over an extended period of time.

There is no long-term strategy for the brand. The following questions about the brand environment five or ten years into thefuture are unanswered, and may have not been addressed: What associations should the brand have? In what product classes shouldthe brand be competing? What mental image should the brand stimulate in the future?

Managing with a long-term perspective is difficult in the face of the shareholder value emphasis, and other pressures, facing U.S. managers.

we need to find measures of long-term performance to supplement or replace short-term financials, measures that will be convincing enough to satisfy shareholders.

There is no person in the firm who is really charged with protecting the brand equity. Those nominally in charge of the brand,perhaps termed brand managers or product marketing managers, are in fact evaluated on the basis of short-term measures.

P&G is known on Wall Street as a firm which takes a long-term view of its brand profitability.

when she contemplated the world situation she was aware that her mind would expand and become vast in three dimensions, and she could think years ahead, contemplating hundreds of moves as though she were observing a gigantic, global chessboard. When she planned, she planned sometimes decades in advance.

Love—unconditional love—is the ultimate long-term antidote for depression, for at its core love is connected with faith and hope.