Short Term Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

  Bob Kerrey

  Commitment, People, Looks

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• What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.

  Jonathan Clements

  Intelligent, Laughing, Trying

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• In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that  we don't need genetically modified organisms.

  Jacques Diouf

  Taken, Needs, World

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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  Adam D'Angelo

  Long, Focus, Decision

  "My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo". Interview with Om Malik, gigaom.com. Jan 7, 2013.

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• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.

  Susannah York

  Country, Sacrifice, Mirrors

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• While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Recovery, Long, Attention

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• Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

  Peter W. Huber

  Impact, Hands, Opposites

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Real, Practice

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.

  Stuart Ewen

  Mean, Long, Desire

  Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

  Mike Jeffries

  Long, Promotion, Term

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• A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, People

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Long, Problem

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• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Pain, Long, Benefits

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• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Running, Technology, Race

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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