Quotes About Long-term

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

We've found, empirically, that long-term revenue growth—particularly organic revenue growth—is the most important driver of shareholder returns for companies with high returns on capital.

Besides striking it rich, Day accomplished something else, too. For even more than the business model, the long-term social consequences of a newspaper for the masses were profound. Large numbers of people taking in daily news gave rise to what Jürgen Habermas has called a "public sphere"—a more quotidian term for this effect is "public opinion," but by whatever name, it was a new phenomenon, and one dependent on the nascent but growing attention industry.

If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis. Addiction is short-term desire. Purpose is long-term desire.

I can wait" ? Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" ? Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance.

trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

En esto consiste la estrategia del lienzo, en ayudarte ayudando a los demás. En realizar un esfuerzo coordinado para cambiar tu satisfacción a corto plazo por una recompensa a largo plazo.

Most likely, the problem won't be around in a year, but my reputation of how I dealt with it will.

Back to Tony, "cap the downside" also applies to thinking long-term about fees and middlemen: "If three of my friends [and I] all put aside the same amount of money, and we all get a 7% return, but my buddy's getting fees of 3%, my other buddy's 2%, and I'm 1%, and all three of us put $1 million in or $100,000 . . . the person with 3% of fees ends up with 65% less money [in the long-term]. . . .

We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

I aspire to only work with people who I can work with forever, to invest my time in activities that are a joy unto themselves, and to focus on the extremely long term.

Can I trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.

Don't give it five minutes if you're not gonna give it five years.

I was a policy office in my final tour in the Navy, a Russian policy officer, and we were always thinking about our interactions and how they would affect the country 10, 20 years from now.

Rome was not built in one day.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

The reality remains that teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

Jamie Dimon is in a position to scoop up assets on the cheap. That's how you create value for the long term.

Qualities such as honesty, determination, and a cheerful acceptance of stress, which can all be identified through probing questionnaires and interviews, may be more important to the company in the long run than one's college grade-point average or years of "related experience.