Quotes About Short-term

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.

Three Principles of Short- and Long-Term Performance 1.?Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. 2.?Invest in the future, but not excessively. 3.?Grow while keeping fixed costs constant.

Even, he argued, if we are all rational enough to understand that it's in our long-term interest to live in peace and security, our short-term interests are often such that killing and plundering are the most obviously profitable courses to take, and all it takes is a few to cast aside their scruples to create utter insecurity and chaos.

In busy times there is also a temptation to let investments such as training take a back seat to getting the work out the door. Only adherence to the firm's principles and values prevents opportunistic behavior that may have short-term benefits but long-term adverse consequences.

No existe cualidad de la naturaleza humana que cause errores más fatales en nuestra conducta que la que nos lleva a preferir lo que es presente a lo distante y lo remoto y nos hace desear los objetos más por su situación que por su valor intrínseco.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

Solution to every long term problem is education.Solution to every short term problem is a smile.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.

I never had a long-term plan.

We've never been good at long-term plans.

Whatever long-term advantages are claimed for Brexit it is overwhelmingly clear that in the short to medium term it carries risks to our economy and security.

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

It is not prudent to attempt to switch and swap asset classes based on short-term market predictions.

The problem with long-term investing is the short term. Nothing destroys a good long-term plan like extreme short-term volatility. That throws people off track, and they often do things that are emotional rather than rational.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

The results from both studies clearly indicated that in terms of short- and long-term happiness, buying experiences made people feel better than buying products.