You cannot have lasting success if you are only looking for short term gains. — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
“Just get on with starting, the worst and the most surprising thing to ever expect is short term failure.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations. — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd… — Graham Potter Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence… — Richard Benyo Copy Share Image
Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the… — Gale Sayers Copy Share Image
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Chronotropic Drugs: Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do… — Larissa MacFarquhar Copy Share Image
“Humans have little plan to get anywhere beyond their short term benefits.” — Nael Gharzeddine Copy Share Image
“Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.” — C.L.J. Barr Copy Share Image
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices... — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
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