If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
“Strategic Thinking is about uncovering all the options and thinking long term.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. — Gerry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.” — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Through U.K. aid, we will help developing countries to crack down on money laundering and gather more tax - which will reduce… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to… — Tony Buzan 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
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward… — Roger G. Ibbotson Copy Share Image
We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term. — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go,… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you… — Stephen Lovegrove Copy Share Image
As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out… — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
“Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image