Quotes About Long-term

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

I've only three times in my career felt I absolutely had to play a part and the first two I got close and was vetoed - by the same person actually. So when 'Strike' came along I had no qualms about signing on for something I was potentially still going to be doing in 10 years.

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

A strong sense of purpose drives businesses to take the long view and invest for growth.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

Not that I am saying I will never manage again. I want to spend more time with my family and, since we live in Cornwall, that rules out most long-term options.

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

That means that everybody needs to have some capacity to devote to change. This is time that people dedicate to rethinking how their piece of the whole works, and how it ought to work. Once the change is under way, more time is required to practice new ways and to master new skills. That's the cost. The benefit is vitality and a firm grip on the future. Slack is the way you invest in change. Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health.

Leadership is the ability to enroll other people in your agenda. Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies ("My people are too dumb to build systems without them" ) and technical interference by the manager. Both are doomed to fail in the long run.

in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.

Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.

erring on the side of the client when it comes to fees. Because you're interested in a long-term relationship with a client, it is in your best interest to show them that you are more focused on helping them than you are in maximizing your short-term revenue.