Top 1200 Short Term Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

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.

As a responsible consumer brand, we have not just built for the short term, but build for longer-term relationships.

It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

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

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

The finance world in general is very, very complicated and there are so many different things that need to be evaluated, but I think at the end of the day, the most important thing is how you want to invest your money - if you want to be a short-term, mid-term or long-term investor.

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

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

I think long-term, not short-term.

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.

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

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

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

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory.

Short term political calculations of the past must give way to long-term investments for the future.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.

It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief, but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences.

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

I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

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.

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.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

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

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

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

Whatever long-term advantages are claimed for Brexit it is overwhelmingly clear that in the short to medium term it carries risks to our economy and security.

Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.

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.

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.

It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

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

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.