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• When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

  Al Gore

  Flirting, People, Despair

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

  Al Gore

  Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Long, Care, Ceo

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• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  Barney Frank

  Yield, Long, Doe

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• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  Harry Browne

  War, Government, Careers

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• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  Bob Beauprez

  Meaningful, Cutting, Growth

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• There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Responsibility, Choices, Comfort

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

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• If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Nature, Long, Community

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• The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Motivational, Skills, Work Out

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• Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

  Janet Yellen

  Growth, Sides, Painful

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• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Doubt

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• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  George Will

  Leadership, Pain, Long

  George F. Will (1983). “Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does”

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• You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Two, Long

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• Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Years, Earning

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, People, Goal

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• The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

  Matt Taibbi

  Agency, Government, Long

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• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Priorities, Energy

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• What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Community, Doe, Investment

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• Rekindled love is generally short-term.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love Is, Literature, Term

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• If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Mean, Years, Debt

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• You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Goal, Long

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• Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

  George Soros

  Trends, Volatility, Term

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.170, John Wiley & Sons

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