Quotes About Long-term

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Early failure is usually better than early success, because the lesson in humility lasts a long time and makes you more effective over the long term.

One game is not a season. Pleasure, enjoyment, success are not short-term. Success is a grind. It's perseverance; it is operating at a high level of performance on a constant basis.

Let's assume a child is born today. For the next 65 years, she or her parents will deposit a certain amount into a stock mutual fund that pays an average annual return of 10 percent. How much do you think they need to deposit each day in order for her to have $1 million at age 65? Five dollars? Ten Dollars? In fact, a daily deposit of only 54 cents compounds to more than $1 million in 65 years. It really helps to start early.

A 25-year-old who invests $5,000 in a Roth IRA once a year for 40 years reaches age 65 with a tax-free fortune of $1,625,149.

In contrast, the majority of profits in an index fund are not taxed annually, but are deferred until the money is withdrawn—and then taxes are paid at the lower capital gains rates.

Don't look for the needle. Buy the haystack.

Looking ahead to the time when our children will be independent from us can help us decide how we can be the most effective during the middle school years. This requires asking ourselves not only, "Is what I'm doing working?" but also, "What am I teaching my child?" Think of it as taking the long view of parenting.

Granted, I told Her, that your grand design is undoubtedly something very nasty and bad, eventually, in the long term. But you're immortal and I'm not, so if I stop you now, you'll just wait till I'm dead and start all over again, so really, what's the point in me interfering?

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it's done.

In pharma or in information, you have to invest for three or four years, and then you start seeing returns.

If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.

When you don't spend or invest in the future, you can't always get away with it.

If you dont invest in grassroots and if you dont invest in youth football, then its inevitable that youll pay the price somewhere down the track.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

You can't build a fashion business with a short-term perspective, unless you're prepared to make investments that you know are not going to pay dividends immediately.