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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
The finance world in general is very, very complicated and there are so many different things that need to be evaluated, but… — Danilo Gallinari Copy Share Image
“if management is under pressure to deliver profits in the short term, quick-response promotions are a more attractive investment than design improvements.… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make… — Charles Koch 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
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
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
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
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
I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a… — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care… — Chip Kelly Copy Share Image
Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long… — Moby Copy Share Image
“We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better.… — Maggie Pouncey Copy Share Image
Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even… — Jim Yong Kim 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
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
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
Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value,… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown,… — Steve Mariucci Copy Share Image
Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
