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Quotes About Short-term

The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase.
~ Christophe de Margerie
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
~ Larry Craig
If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.
~ Michael Lewis
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
~ Michael Lewis
fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.
~ Michael Lewis
There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions.
~ Michael Lewis
There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.
~ Michael Lewis
There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management.
~ Michael Lewis
Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. What
~ Michael Lewis
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
When you use carbon dioxide equivalents, you aren't fully accounting for this important short-term effect.
~ Bill Gates
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
~ Bill Watterson
The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.
~ Jacob Weisberg
Somebody needs to position you and introduce you, but after that, most of the bankers get represented with their large clients; mostly investors are their long-term clients and an investee is a short term client.
~ Ronnie Screwvala
the concept of "amoral familism," whose code he describes as "Maximize the material, short-run advantage of the nuclear family; assume that all others will do likewise." Cooperation
~ Francis Fukuyama
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
~ Peter Singer
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
~ Barney Frank
As treasury secretary, I don't see it as my role commenting on the dollar in short-term movements.
~ Steve Mnuchin
If he says something silly like "I'm just trying to make it day by day," run. If his long-term plan is the same as his short-term plan, get out. Immediately. Because his answer tells you that he hasn't thought his life through, or he doesn't see you in it and so he has no reason to divulge the details to you.
~ Steve Harvey
A speculator buys stocks hoping for a short-term gain over the next days or weeks. An investor buys stocks likely to produce a dependable future stream of cash returns and capital gains when measured over years or decades.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term.
~ Carl Sagan
You humans have a certain talent for adaptability--at least in the short term.
~ Carl Sagan
La comprensión del cambio climático puede tener profundas consecuencias básicas, porque el hombre está ejerciendo tremenda influencia en el medio ambiente de la Tierra, a menudo en formas que revelan mediocres caminos de pensamiento, malas comprensiones y conveniencias individuales y beneficios económicos a corto plazo, entre los habitantes del planeta.
~ Carl Sagan
It is about building the best team you can, not just one to play in the Championship. You look short-term because you need to be competitive, that's the nature of the business. But it's exciting to have players whose potential is exciting.
~ Graham Potter