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

  Rick Rubin

  Long, People, Choices

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young people - since they are a long term investment - are a liability. This is system that only believes in short-term investments.

  Henry Giroux

  Believe, Long, People

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• I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

  Louis van Gaal

  Thinking, Long, Term

  "Louis van Gaal Q&A: Manchester United boss in boisterous first in-depth interview since taking charge". Interview With David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2014.

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• You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

  Roger Goodell

  Ambition, Successful, Long

  "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

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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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• 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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• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Intelligent, Medicine

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• In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Long, Way, Building

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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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• Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Winning, Long

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.

  Rajiv Shah

  War, Reality, Long

  "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Work Out, Succeed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Book, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Pain, Order

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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