People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
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
People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to… — Robert Kiyosaki 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
It's best if you assess the emotional benefits of an upcoming situation before you make a move. Sure, the short-term gain seems… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you see your company culture as a family, you don't want to fire someone just because their short-term performance is not… — Eric Yuan Copy Share Image
Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back… — Roy O. Disney Copy Share Image
Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying… — Arundhati Roy 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
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
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
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved… — Philippa Perry 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
