Quotes About Long-term

Most people don't take the long-term view. The media is more of a short-term reactionary view.

The problem is people don't want to make the sacrifice. They have no long term thinking. But the difficulty is, if you don't put the brakes on your spending NOW, it'll only be far worse later on down the line.

I turned to Grey again. "The point is, killing someone is almost never the smart move, long term. Sometimes it's got to be done if you want to survive—but the more you do it, the more you risk creating more enemies and buying yourself even more trouble." Grey seemed to consider that for a moment, and then shrugged. "The argument is not entirely without merit. Tell me, wizard, does it give you some sort of satisfaction to protect this man?

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.

We have to find Aurora and stop her. Save the girl." "Or what happens?" Billy asked. "Badness." "Kaboom badness?" I shook my head. "Mostly longer term than that." "Like what?" "How do you feel about ice ages?

Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.

Writing a dissertation is very much like being in a long-term relationship: there are likely to be some very good times and some perfectly dreadful ones, and it's a big help if you like what you've chosen.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

Females these days really need to search for a man with goals and ambition because 10 years from now 'Swag' isn't going to pay your bills...

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

To understand the real impact of changes in the national state of mind, one has to wait for at least a few decades.

Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories—their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is a very sudden thing.

Goal 9: That our family coheres and loves one another long term, even into adulthood

It's hard to think about 20 to 30 years down the road. Most people want to use the money now - it's tough.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.