We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities…

“I started to notice similarities between what was good poker strategy and what made for good business strategy, especially when thinking about the separation…

— Anonymous

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

— Richard Attias

I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend…

— Rob Nixon

“Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.”

— C.L.J. Barr

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing,…

— Scott M. Gimple

“Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they’re trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it’s this long-term perspective that…

— Newberry, Tommy

I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties,…

— Pete Buttigieg

“The problem is people don't want to make the sacrifice. They have no long term thinking. But the difficulty is, if you don't put…

— Lisa Newton

Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of…

— John Eliot

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

— E. O. Wilson

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

— Rick Warren

“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste” from the…

— Gregory Sholette

Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of…

— Edwin Catmull

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

— Tom Graves

We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon