Quotes About Long-term

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

Yeah, I want these fights where people are going to stand in front of me and I'm going to knock them out. But is that going to be best for me in the long run? Probably not. I want those situations and knockouts and submissions against guys who won't just give them to me.

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market - which is a big enough challenge even for the established players - that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture.

The road is still very long. We want to concentrate for now on manufacturing in the U.S. If I don't succeed, my son will continue with it. If he doesn't make it, my grandson will.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

the Harvard School of Public Health study found that yogurt attenuated long-term weight gain better than any other food, including fruits and vegetables.

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

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.