Long Term Quotes - Page 2

• Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

  Moby

  Long, Difficult, Term

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• Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

  Eben Pagan

  Success, Opposites, Long

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• People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices.

  Rick Rubin

  Long, People, Choices

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• Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

  Michael Lewis

  Sacrifice, Long, Rewards

  Michael Lewis (2011). “Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

  Jason Fried

  Long, Planning, Fantasy

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House

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• I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

  Derrick Rose

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

  "This isn't the end of Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose - that happened long ago" by Parker Marie Molloy, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

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• We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Long, Term

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• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

  Seth Klarman

  Hard Work, Discipline, Long

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• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Cds, Goal

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• Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

  Oliver Sacks

  Blood, Practice, Long

  Oliver Sacks (2012). “Hallucinations”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

  Martin Rees

  Issues, Long, People

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• Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Kindness, Mean, Small Acts

  Lori Gottlieb (2010). “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, p.166, Penguin

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• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Mom, Husband, Father

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• In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

  Shiv Khera

  Long, Needs, Management

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• When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

  Tom Freston

  Girlfriend, Moving, Loss

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• Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.

  Paul Stamets

  Powerful, Acceptance, Medicine

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.  The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.  There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Country, Strong, Technology

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• We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Bridges, Long

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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• Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

  Gerry Schwartz

  Long, Decision, Outcomes

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• I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

  Nev Schulman

  Real, Mean, Long

  "Hot Topic: Nev Schulman" by David Yi, www.elle.com. June 25, 2013.

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• The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Long, Energy

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• You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.

  Scott Belsky

  Long, Incentives, Rewards

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• Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!

  Chris Powell

  Loss, Long, Secret

  "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". news.yahoo.com. January 4, 2013.

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