I think long-term and on a long enough time scale. — Naval Ravikant
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. — Bruce Lee
Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
Build for the long term and the short term will take care of itself. — Rand Fishkin
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. — W. Edwards Deming
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. — Marshall Goldsmith
Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. — Naval Ravikant
Invest in the long term, and don’t worry too much about the short term. — Rand Fishkin
Long-term investment success, risk control, aggressiveness — Howard Marks
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later. — Jeff Bezos
If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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? — Nicholas Sparks
True long-term thinking is goalless thinking. — James Clear
Have the willpower to focus on long-term success instead of instant gratification. — Jaspreet Singh
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient. — Bernard Arnault
Short Long Term Quotes
Consistency of effort over the long run is everything. — Angela Duckworth
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. — Reed Hastings
The key to successful investing is to think long term and ignore short-term noise. — Raoul Pal
The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation. — Seth Klarman
Long term investors best stay away from low profit-margin or marginal companies. — Philip Arthur Fisher
The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. — Bill Squires
The best founders are long-term thinkers. — Naval Ravikant
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. — Nas
To be a successful investor, one has to be emotionally stable and maintain a long-term perspective. — Gautam Baid
They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
Top 10 Long Term Quotes
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
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. — George F. Kennan
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. — Joshua L. Liebman
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world. — Balaji Srinivasan
Punishment only gets short term obedience. Praise gets long term loyalty. — Alex Hormozi
Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long-term payoff. — Tim Grover
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. — Peter Yarrow
The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals. — James Clear
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery. — Albert Ellis
Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Friendship Long Term Quotes
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love. — Madeleine L'Engle
People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality. — Deepak Chopra
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy. — Nev Schulman
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. — H. L. Mencken
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives. — Chick Corea
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. — Eve Arnold
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul. — Ivan Turgenev
Investing Long Term Quotes
We know we must nurture them until they have some history. But even if it takes ten or 15 years for them to become stars, that has been an amazing investment, right? — Bernard Arnault
To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. — Larry Fink
The biggest differentiator that sets your company apart from competitors is your commitment to long-term success. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. — Warren Buffett
High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons. — Isaac Mashman
Short-term price action means nothing and should mean nothing to you. Keep your focus on long-term business growth. — Naved Abdali
A credit bubble is a short-term solution that creates long-term problems. — Russell Napier
Markets can be volatile from time to time; however, stock prices follow earnings accumulation over the long term. — Naved Abdali
Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing). — Vijay Kedia
In investing, luck may occasionally give you a boost, but it’s the rigorous analysis and discipline that sustain long-term success. — Jim Simons
Short Term Long Term Quotes
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
Most people know exactly what they need to do to reach their goals, but they’re not willing to make the short-term sacrifice for long-term achievement. — Alex Hormozi
Focusing on results might be good for short-term performance but it can be an obstacle to long-term learning. — Adam Grant
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. — Howard Davies
Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. — James A. Baldwin
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary
We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. — Naval Ravikant
Long Term Goals Quotes
Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment? — Doug Stanhope
Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it. — Nastia Liukin
Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term. — John W. Henry
They call it perfect timing after years of long-term patience. — Steven Bartlett
Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be. — T. D. Jakes
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. — Rudolf Rocker
Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine — Rick Pitino
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat. — Stephen Jay Gould
Recognize that millennials' personal long-term goals may have nothing to do with their organizations' long-term goals. Discover and facilitate their long-term goals, and they will be more inclined to help their organizations achieve success. — Bill Capodagli
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. — Richard Dawkins
If you are successful, in the long-term you’ll find you’re almost doing all of your hobbies for a living, no matter what they are. — Naval Ravikant
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more. — Balaji Srinivasan
Persistence and discipline are key traits for long-term success in any field. — Jim Simons
Try to find a business that you can understand, that’s not particularly complicated, that has a successful long-term track record, makes an attractive profit and can grow over time. — Bill Ackman
Putting your company’s purpose at the foundation of your relationships with your stakeholders is critical to long-term success. — Larry Fink
It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success. — Anthony Famiglietti
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them. — Nick Murray
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. — Brian Tracy
Think Long Term Quotes
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
It's been a while since I last played Factorio, but I can't stop thinking about it, and of the entire economy as being an MMORPG version of it. Factory Town, RimWorld, Banished, Dawn of Man etc are all great too but somehow pack less long-term punch. — Andrej Karpathy
You should think more about what you’re paying versus what the business is worth. As opposed to what you’re paying versus what they’re going to earn next quarter. — Bill Ackman
Long-term thinking can become a crutch for those who are wrong but don’t want to change their mind. They say, I’m just early or Everyone else is crazy when they can’t let go of something that used to be true but the world has moved on from. — Morgan Housel
Sound money allows people to think about the long term and to save and invest more for the future. Saving and investing for the long run are the key to capital accumulation and the advance of human civilization. — Saifedean Ammous
I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball. — Derrick Rose
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive. — Bjorn Lomborg
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
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. — Jeff Bezos
I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals. — Chip Kelly
Thinking Long Term Quotes
I think the reason altcoins look cheap is because nobody is using them. As soon as they were used they would have exactly the same problem. I don't view it as a solution, I mean, it's an interim kind of thing but not as..., any long term solution. — Adam Back
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. — Edward T. Hall
Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be. — Derek Bok
Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes. — Charlie Munger
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally? — Albert Allen Bartlett
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. — John C. Maxwell
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. — Reid Hoffman
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. — Wilma Mankiller
Relationship Long Term Quotes
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. — Naval Ravikant
I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it. — Michael Kirby
In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities. — Henry Sy
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. — Harriet Lerner
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. — Paul Bloom
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. — Pink
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. — Alice Walker
I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now. — Anthony Kiedis
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. — Carrie Brownstein
Long Term Relationship Quotes
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments. — Stephen Covey
If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else. — Ben Kingsley
I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself. — Dakota Johnson
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. — Chelsea Handler
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship — Esther Perel
Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time. — Raymond Arroyo
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise. — Gerda Lerner
There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships — Jay Conrad Levinson
A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. — Alexander Haig
Long Term Care Quotes
Make decisions that your 80-year old self and 10-year-old self approve of. The former cares about the long-term compounding of actions, while the latter reminds you to have some fun along the way. — Sahil Bloom
In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective. — Dalai Lama
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. — Mark Dayton
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. — Michael Burgess
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. — Michael C. Burgess
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. — Howard Gardner
We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site. — Richard Stallman
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. — Buck Rodgers
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth. — Prince Philip
We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. — Christine Gregoire
Based on the foregoing analysis, the real advantage of bitcoin lies in it being a reliable long-term store of value, and a sovereign form of money that allows individuals to conduct permissionless transactions. — Saifedean Ammous
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. — Matthieu Ricard
Only the passage of time will we know what long term damage may occur to these children. These vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system, and their ability to have children in the future. — Robert W. Malone
Rather than flog yourself over a slip, embrace it as simply an integral part of the process of change. Punish yourself and you’ve just made a second mistake – because holding yourself to an unrealistic standard... is a pattern that can lead to defeatism. A shame spiral that can take you out of the game altogether. And the game is all about long-term sustainability over short-term temporary gains. — Rich Roll
The idea is to make it as easy as possible in the moment to do things that payoff in the long run. — James Clear
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. — Katherine Dunn
By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates. — Jerome Powell
It’s never been more essential for CEOs to have a consistent voice, a clear purpose, a coherent strategy, and a long-term view. — Larry Fink
As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector. — Barack Obama
When you feel you’re committed to something outside of yourself - some process ideally that contributes in a greater way to society - that seems to be one of the best predictors of long-term health and healthy aging. — Tommy Wood
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. — Les Aspin
At the moment we’re very concerned about the pollution and the loss of certain species, and these are legitimate concerns for some people. But it should never be at the expense of the long-term vision that we can solve all of those problems—and far more—if we could progress at a faster rate by using the resources that we have available to us. — Naval Ravikant
Additional fiscal support could be costly, but worth it if it helps avoid long-term economic damage and leaves us with a stronger recovery. — Jerome Powell
Besides the great concern over long-term damage to kids, the COVID-19 vaccines make the children acutely ill. Cannot play or participate in school or activities for days. Products should be pulled off the market, not injected into children! — Peter A. McCullough
Sound money allows people to think about the long term and to save and invest more for the future. Saving and investing for the long run are the key to capital accumulation and the advance of human civilization. Money is the information and measurement system of an economy, and sound money is what allows trade, investment, and entrepreneurship to proceed on a solid basis, whereas unsound money throws these processes into disarray. — Saifedean Ammous
The railroad business is one of the great businesses of the world...first of all, they’re not going to build a new one right? If you own the second largest railroad in Canada...That’s Canadian Pacific. You know it’s an asset that was created 150 or 60 years ago...the replacement cost of the railroad is you know, hundreds of billions of dollars. — Bill Ackman
We really believe that long-term, the way AI will drive is similar to the way humans drive. — Jensen Huang
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