Long Term Quotes

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”
― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World

“There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. 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, The Last Song

“Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?”
― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

“A strategy is an action plan of what you want to achieve and how. It defines where you want to see yourself in the long-term and how you are going to use your resources, skills and competencies to achieve that.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Marketing is an investment that generally generates long term results.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“How many times have an author come to me to say that I had told them so? Many. Choose to listen to or not the advice gained from experience and wisdom at your own peril. You might save yourself a lot of time and grief. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Being Strong for the Long Tail”
― Kailin Gow

“Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And just as every person has their own void, their own haunt or their own unanswered question...they also have the power to turn it into a legacy every bit as profound as they make it.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone.”
― Larissa MacFarquhar

“Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.”
― Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

“You will make better decisions once you begin thinking long-term rather than short-term.”
― Adam Smith

“Life has immense analogy with stock market.
It is volatile, but if you stick on long enough, it has the potential to reward you with handsome returns in the long run.”
― Manoj Arora, The Autobiography Of A Stock

“We are more fascinated today by statistical predictions of what the country will be thinking in a few weeks’ time than by visionary predictions of what the country will look like in 10 or 20 years from now.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Ignoring the facts for short-term gain will almost always bring long-term pain.”
― Eldon Henson, Achieving your best day yet!: A more fulfilling career... a more impactful life

“Everybody is a long-term investor till the market drops by 10% or more.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.”
― Steven Magee

“Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem”
― Gyan Nagpal

“In cryptocurrency investment, long term thinkers are less stressed.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There's no long-term purchase plan available for life.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“Any form of laziness will more than likely prove expensive in the long-term in one form or another.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“[R]ight when it's at its hardest, right when you want to give up most, that's when your commitment to the long term is most important. Because unlike you, the people you want to help can't just leave.”
― Severine Autesserre, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

“Bitcoin is not a trade, it is the exit from the traditional trade. Think long-term!”
― Olawale Daniel

“Investment is all about building wealth with a reasonable rate-of-return. Play this game for a long haul.”
― Naved Abdali

“If you never fail short term, you'll never succeed long term.”
― Drasen

“It is easy to underrate how long it takes to implement a new idea. Researchers estimate that it takes 30 years for a groundbreaking development to progress from initial idea to a commercially viable product.

Middle management often extols the value of short-term strategies that react to market circumstances. Kodak used short-term strategies to keep its analogue photography business going. But the expression 'short-term strategy' is in fact an oxymoron, because trying to reach short-term goals is not strategic by definition.”
― Oliver Gassmann, The Business Model Navigator: 55 Models That Will Revolutionise Your Business

“The illnesses in high altitude professional astronomy are generally a mixture of long term altitude sickness and workplace toxicity.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“There is a notable absence of published medical research on the long term health issues of current and past summit workers in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The police need to learn that repeatedly threatening to arrest a person that is fully compliant is going to make life harder for them in the long term.”
― Steven Magee

“There are times when we have to forego results in order to build long-lasting relationships that, in turn, will bring about the desired results in the long run.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“High dosing of a single amino acid can be done for a short period of time, but long term it may cause issues.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements