If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least… — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year… — Shi Zhengrong Copy Share Image
Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Win, loss whatever emerges in the short-term, place and manage your next trades untouched, unattached... always keeping your eyes on the long-term… — Yvan Byeajee Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that’s… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so:… — George Soros Copy Share Image
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with… — Emanuel Azenberg Copy Share Image
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone… — Adam D'Angelo Copy Share Image
I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
