Long Term Quotes - Page 15

• 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 doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors". www.geekwire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Long, Agendas

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

  Jeff Bridges

  Funny, Thinking, Long

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Life, Moving, Self

  " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.

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• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, People, Cash

  "Buy American. I Am" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

  Sophia Bush

  Girl, Mom, Home

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

  Vince Cable

  Views, Years, Long

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• Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

  David Cameron

  Successful, Long, Needs

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

  Graydon Carter

  Long, Water, Brain

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

  Pete Coors

  Sex, Airplane, Gay

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• I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.

  Claire Danes

  New York, New Relationship, Home

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 1, 2003.

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• I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Hands, Long

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• Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Asking Questions, Fiction Novels

  "Junot Díaz Aims To Fulfill His Dream Of Publishing Sci-fi Novel With Monstro". "Wired" Interview, www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Gone Away, Ideas, Long

  "Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Class, America

  "Tomdispatch Interview: Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Hurt, Heart, Long

  "Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Path of the Broken Heart" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  Paloma Faith

  Long, Term, Ifs

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• I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

  Corey Feldman

  Long, Directors, Actors

  "Corey Feldman: No longer lost" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hate, Long, Guy

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• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  Barney Frank

  Yield, Long, Doe

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• Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Long, Support

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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

  Elton Gallegly

  Long, Green, Visitors

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• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Long, Care, Ceo

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