The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. — George Will Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2%… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term - whether for efficiency or profitability… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
You can't build a fashion business with a short-term perspective, unless you're prepared to make investments that you know are not going… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The first time Brie Larson was really on our radar as somebody who we wanted to work with was 'Short Term 12.' — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the… — Luis de Guindos Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth.… — Bruce Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it’s a weighing machine” that measures a… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on… — Abigail Johnson Copy Share Image
