Quotes About Long-term

Long term, your beliefs determine your destiny.

Short-term can be terminal.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.

Orar con fervor + pensar a largo plazo = mantenerse enfocado.

The very concept of long-term confinement, a constitutive element of mass incarceration in the U.S., is made worse by overcrowded and inhumane conditions, and has been analyzed and criticized as torture.

Because using classes well requires some up-front planning, they tend to be of more interest to people who work in strategic mode (doing long-term product development) than to people who work in tactical mode (where time is in very short supply).

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

I like to keep my curiosity alive and question everything, and because I hate leaving something undone once I start it, I think far into the future.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.