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

“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

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

“Corporate governance involves its fair share of short-term demands, but focusing on long-term value creation ensures sustainable success.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“How does anyone think long-term around here?'

'Not everyone is in a quadrant where death is less of a chance and more of a foregone conclusion.' I breathe in the scent of the Archives and try to absorb a little of the peace it brings.

'So you're saying that some people still try to make cute little things like plans.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“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

“Long term malnutrition can be the outcome of a viral infection.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“It’s extremely unlikely you will be magically transformed from a mediocre or average people manager to a Satya Nadella or a Ratan Tata. You will often revert to type and repeat your bad behaviors. But if you become aware of this retrogressive behavior and can reduce the frequency and severity of this you can change over time, not overnight.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the job were!”
― Steven Magee

“As I watched my mental and physical health rapidly decline during a decade of working in high altitude professional astronomy, I became suspicious about the toxicity of the jobs and left the field to protect my long term health.”
― Steven Magee

“You can habitually lie to me, but in the long term it is probably not going to go well for you.”
― Steven Magee

“When it is Bitcoin; bad or good news doesn't matter too much. Be the long-term HODLER. That is all that really matters in this game of risk and reward.”
― Olawale Daniel

“There are numerous long term health issues associated with airplane explosive decompression.”
― Steven Magee

“There are a myriad of long term health issues associated with an airplane explosive decompression.”
― Steven Magee

“Is anyone monitoring the long term health outcomes of all passengers from the Boeing 737 Max 9 explosive decompression?”
― Steven Magee

“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a high altitude worker.”
― Steven Magee

“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a police officer.”
― Steven Magee

“Why are many police officers corrupt? For some of them, it is coming from the long-term side effects of their risky and stressful job.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a social responsibility to discover the health techniques needed to recover from the long-term hypoxic damage we know as ‘Long COVID’ and ‘Altitude Sickness’.”
― Steven Magee

“For many years I have thought long term human survival in a climate changed world will probably occur in high altitude colonies near the equator.”
― Steven Magee

“USA unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled!”
― Steven Magee

“Unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed in the USA!”
― Steven Magee