Quotes About Long-term

Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.

A CRASH COURSE FOR SUCCESS • Play to win and not to lose. • Learn from other people's mistakes. • Associate with people of high moral character. • Give more than you get. • Don't look for something for nothing. • Always think long term. • Evaluate your strengths and build on them. • Always keep the larger picture in mind when making a decision. • Never compromise your integrity.

Patience is when you don't eat your egg only to let it turn into a chicken and pay higher dividends

A club like Bayern Munich, which shuns debt, is in fact missing a trick. Bayern could easily borrow a few hundred million dollars to make itself invincible against human opposition on the long term.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

I wasn't seeing much of a long-term career in waitressing—which, for a girl who doesn't even like standing up to wash her hair, can be brutal—

Hold an index fund for 20 years or more, adding new money every month, and you are all but certain to outper-forms the vast majority of professional and individual investors alike. Late in his life, Graham praised index funds as the best choice for individual investors, as does Warren Buffett.6

Dividend Record. One of the most persuasive tests of high quality is an uninterrupted record of dividend payments going back over many years. We think that a record of continuous dividend payments for the last 20 years or more is an important plus factor in the company's quality rating. Indeed the defensive investor might be justified in limiting his purchases to those meeting this test.

para disfrutar de una probabilidad razonable de obtener unos resultados continuados mejores que la media, el inversor debe seguir unas políticas que sean (1) inherentemente sensatas, firmes y prometedoras, y (2) que no gocen de popularidad en el mercado de valores.

day trading—holding stocks for a few hours at a time—is one of the best weapons ever invented for committing financial suicide.

the practitioner invests in common stocks the same number of dollars each month or each quarter. In this way he buys more shares when the market is low than when it is high, and he is likely to end up with a satisfactory overall price for all his holdings.

But the intelligent investor has no interest in being temporarily right. To reach your long-term financial goals, you must be sustainably and reliably right.

What have we learned? The market scoffs at Graham's principles in the short run, but they are always revalidated in the end. If you buy a stock purely because its price has been going up—instead of asking whether the underlying company's value is increasing—then sooner or later you will be extremely sorry. That's not a likelihood. It is a certainty.

Let's say you can spare $500 a month. By owning and dollar-cost averaging into just three index funds—$300 into one that holds the total U.S. stock market, $100 into one that holds foreign stocks, and $100 into one that holds U.S. bonds—you can ensure that you own almost every investment on the planet that's worth owning.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator

A long-term investor is the only kind of investor there is. Someone who can't hold on to stocks for more than a few months at a time is doomed to end up not as a victor but as a victim.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

Jak jsme se pou?ili? V krátkém období se trh Grahamovým princip?m vysmívá, ale v dlouhém období se jim vždy dostane rehabilitace. Jestliže nakupujete akcie jen proto, že jejich cena roste - místo toho, abyste se ptali, zda se zvyÅ¡ue fundamentální hodnota spole?nosti-eminenta - bude vás to dÃ…â"¢íve nebo pozdÄ›ji Å¡erednÄ› mrzet. To není jen pravdÄ›podobnost. To je jistota.

First of all, recognize that an index fund—which owns all the stocks in the market, all the time, without any pretense of being able to select the "best" and avoid the "worst"—will beat most funds over the long run.