“Humans have little plan to get anywhere beyond their short term benefits.” — Nael Gharzeddine Copy Share Image
“Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.” — C.L.J. Barr Copy Share Image
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices... — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence… — Richard Benyo Copy Share Image
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the… — Gale Sayers Copy Share Image
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd… — Graham Potter 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
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
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading. — Pat Bowlen Copy Share Image
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.” — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems” — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with -… — Peter Green Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Choose men who aren't in it for the short term. Do not give the goods unless they're willing to commit and give… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
The financial time frame always has been short-term. Projects with long-term paybacks are cut back, because CEOs and financial managers simply want… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image