Top 1200 Short-Term Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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.

I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

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.

We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.

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

Actions aimed at supporting deleveraging and balance-sheet repair - such as recognizing losses, writing down assets, and recapitalizing banks - carry longer-term benefits but short-term costs.

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

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.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.

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

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

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

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know about stocks is exactly when they will up or go down. Over the long term, stocks generally rise at a nice pace. History shows they double in value every seven years or so. But in the short term, stocks are just plain wild. Over periods of days, weeks and months, no one has any idea what they will do. Still, nearly all investors think they are smart enough to divine such short-term movements. This hubris frequently gets them into trouble.

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.

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?

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

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

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

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

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

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

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.

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.

I think long-term, not short-term.

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.

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

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.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

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.

Most people don't take the long-term view. The media is more of a short-term reactionary view.