Long Term Quotes - Page 6

• My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Long, Vision

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• Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

  George Will

  Football, Games, Long

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• There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

  Richard Benjamin

  Thinking, Class, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

  Hans-Werner Sinn

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Russia, Iron, Long

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• As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.

  Charles Landry

  Thinking, Class, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Investment Success, Long

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• Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."

  Michael Horton

  Athlete, Commitment, Artist

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Everyone is wounded. No one is healthy enough to never screw up, when you're in combat. But, I like to show that, and I like to show how people get back from that. You have to forgive each other. When you're in the middle of a long-term commitment, the essence of it is that everyone is going to have good days and bad days, and it's about how you continue to rejoin forces.

  Judd Apatow

  Commitment, Good Day, Bad Day

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 18, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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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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• 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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• 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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• Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Innovation, Climate

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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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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• 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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• There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

  Chuck Close

  Wind, Long, Process

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• Our Government is pleased to invest in increasing export market access for the western Canadian lamb industry. By further strengthening this industry, we are helping producers create economic growth and long-term prosperity.

  Michelle Rempel

  Government, Long, Growth

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• America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

  John le Carre

  War, Pigs, America

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

  John C. Bogle

  Long, Lasts, Investing

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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