Short Term Quotes - Page 13

• Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!

  Richard Madeley

  Memories, Nuts, Shots

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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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• European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Years, Our Words, Able

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• Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.

  Albert Goldman

  Summer, Dog, Giving

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• The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

  Lord Acton

  Sunset, Long, Loser

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• Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

  Simon Sinek

  Decision, Results, Term

  "Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.

  Peter Green

  Reality, Majority, Want

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• I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cutting, Class

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• Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Example, Needs

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands

  Carl Icahn

  Hands, Care, Want

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• Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Leadership, Sacrifice

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• If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Boston, Feelings, Valleys

  "Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston" by Leena Rao, techcrunch.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Long, People

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• In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Struggle, Fighting, Play

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• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

  S. J. Perelman

  Cities, Wife, Fool

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

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Investing, Return, Portfolios

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• People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

  Ben Bernanke

  Political, Needs, Able

  "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.

  Jim Rogers

  Long, Doe, Way

  "Rogers: U.S. stocks' winning streak 'going to end badly'" by the CNN Wire, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  Indra Nooyi

  Unemployment, Done, Addresses

  "Discouraged CEOs Set Bar Low for Obama's Job Speech" by Gennine Kelly, www.cnbc.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Years, Vaccines

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• Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Long, Decision

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

  Alfred Marshall

  Purpose, Use, May

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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