Long Term Quotes

• Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

  Reed Hastings

  Optimistic, Long, Entrepreneur

  "Three Quotes to Help Entrepreneurs When Things Get Tough" by Patricia G. Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.

  Garrison Wynn

  Long, People, Foundation

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

  Stafford Cripps

  Long, Development, Intensity

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• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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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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• Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Commitment, Discipline

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• We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

  John C. Maxwell

  Long, Mature, Term

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• The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

  Mike Dooley

  Long, Change For The Better, Obsession

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• People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

  Brandon Stanton

  Self, Two, Long

  Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

  Adrienne Rich

  Long, Optimism, Important

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Robert Reich

  Leadership, Teamwork, Business

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• Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

  William Davis

  Sports, Jumping, Climbing

  William Davis (2014). “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”, p.88, Rodale

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• Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. Your confidence is quite a separate matter from your social skills.

  John Eliot

  Confidence, Thinking About You, Way Of Thinking

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.139, Diversion Books

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• You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

  Daniel Snyder

  Practice, Long, Goal

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• Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

  Reem Acra

  Long, Done, Term

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

  Tony Buzan

  Opportunity, Creating Opportunities, Long

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• In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Long, Perspective

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Investment, Building

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is too short for long-term grudges.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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

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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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• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Long, Quality, Cost

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