“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.” — Richard Epstein Copy Share Image
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road. — Adrian Gostick Copy Share Image
The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux Copy Share Image
I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself. — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a… — Daniel Farke Copy Share Image
Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
It's nice to have short-term to medium-term things that we can apply and see real change in our products, but also have… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight. — Tom Graves Copy Share Image
Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear, though, that I am not trying to say these are bad drugs. Opioid medications in the… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
“[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do… — Larissa MacFarquhar 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
I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there.… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time. — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we work hard in the short term but still fail to achieve our big-picture goals.” — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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