Short Term Quotes

• We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

  Kofi Annan

  Economic Globalization, Faces, Driven

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.68, Routledge

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• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Believe, Writing

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.196, University of Michigan Press

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• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Fighting, Long

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.180, Heinemann

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• Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Attitude, Long

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.172, Penguin Books India

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• It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Heart

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

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• I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Relationship, Mean, Long

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

  Tom Rath

  Long, Decision, Incentives

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.

  John H. Sununu

  Self, Long, Done

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• When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to ageing, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.

  Kevin Warwick

  Memories, Two, Aging

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

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• The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Salary, Way

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

  Brad Feld

  Thinking, Journey, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Whether youre a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or youre a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, youve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

  Steve Mariucci

  Memories, Play, Next

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• The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany

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• There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.

  Mats Sundin

  Goal, Important, Way

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• Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

  John Nolte

  Distance, Interesting, Miracle

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• The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Office, People

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• We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mean, Stories, Buzz

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• Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.

  Rory Vaden

  Long, Choices, Easy

  Interview with John O'Leary, johnolearyinspires.com. June 16, 2014.

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• The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

  Steve Burns

  Long, Risk, Majority

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• We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

  Larry Page

  Business, Believe, Long

  "Google tax avoidance is 'wrong', insists Ed Miliband" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Ideas, Long

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• Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Years, Tomorrow

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Thinking, Years

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• Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

  James A. Baldwin

  Long, People, Mismatch

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• The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films.

  Emanuel Azenberg

  Years, Long, Upgrading

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