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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.


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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
LARRY ADLER The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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ROBERT ALLEN This year, we are certainly creating some pressure on the bottom line by this move in the US to broa...
JONATHAN MILLER The way to enjoy the short term is to prepare for the long term.
LORRIN L. LEE It's short-term pain for long-term gain.
CHARLES PEABODY You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.
ROBERT MANN You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
CHARLES C. NOBLE You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
CHARLES C. NOBLE There is naturally a tension between short-term and long-term, ... The key is, you can never sacrifi...
CHARLES PRINCE Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mis...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
TIMOTHY LEARY I wouldn't expect any symptoms in the short term, or long-term.
BRIAN TOAL As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
CARLOS GHOSN The rich have long-term mentality, but the poor have short-term mentality.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's going to affect tourism in the short term, and the long term.
DARRELL BRYAN The budget proposal by the Department of Defense is short-sighted, short-term thinking, and long on ...
ANDER CRENSHAW Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
JACK WELCH We'll gather to address the short-term and long-term plan for the Elco.
WAYNE KRAMER Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.
ALAN WOOD Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI Life is too short for long-term grudges.
ELON MUSK It has the potential to help lower both short-term and long-term health costs.
HELEN DARLING In the short term, there's revenue, obviously. But long term, we're creating more Cubs fans.
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MAKIS AGOROS Most people see this as a long-term challenge. The short-term money is needed because we have some s...
DR. DAVID NABARRO The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice ...
AL GORE If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can conve...
ERIC KANDEL The short-term economic consequences might not be pretty. But long-term, it might make sense.
JAMES ACKOR Solution to every long term problem is education.
Solution to every short term problem is a smi...
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STEWART UDALL Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN Long range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN You will make better decisions once you begin thinking long-term rather than short-term.
ADAM KIRK SMITH The real problem with arsenic is the chronic long-term exposure. In the short term, these (delays) d...
ADAM RANKIN It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn&#...
OTTMAR HITZFELD Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term d...
ADAM D'ANGELO The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
TONY SNOW The more you chase the Holy Grail of short term performance, the less you get in long-term results
WALTER CABOT I can't comment on the short term situation. But over the long term, based on the economic growth fu...
ANDREW HOLLAND Minor parties live by short-term peaks and valleys, and unless there is an issue basis for their lon...
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GEORGE WILL The most effective way to prevent the exploitation of our long-term shareholders is to charge an app...
BILL NYGREN A strong man instils confidence in the short term, but in the long term politics is about how people...
HUSAIN HAQQANI You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can ...
JACK WELCH We're starting to hit that wave where interoperability and partnerships will define the long-term wi...
ZEUS KERRAVALA The short-term folks that are worried about earnings are providing us long-term investors some great...
SHAWN JOHNSON It's all geopolitical right now. People are more concerned with the long-term crude situation than s...
BRIAN KUZMA Letting fear run your life leads to a short term solution and a long term problem.
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DARRYL COLOSI The environmental impact statement explores all the social, environmental and economic impacts -- be...
DANIEL SPITZER We really need to do something in the short term while you folks figure something out for the long t...
DAN BLANKENSHIP Our view is that the G8 was a great opportunity. Although there was some short-term pain, there will...
ANDREW JOHNSTON Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.
SIMON SINEK There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ...
TIMOTHY LEARY There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I...
TIMOTHY LEARY We are certainly pleased overall. We can deal with the short-term losses. Over the long term, things...
DICK LUEDKE Expect prices to rise in the short term. That could be extended into the long term, depending on dam...
BEN BROCKWELL It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budg...
ALEXA VON TOBEL I think it would be a mistake to analyze this as a short-term investment. Our view is very long term...
BILL RAMS The inflation risk in the short, medium and long term have risen.
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ALLEN WALLACE In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dis...
KAPIL DEV There's no question that it would save money in the long term, but we just don't have the short-term...
GWENDA BOND The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long te...
CINDY ADAMS The bottom line for him is, you know, short term, find the right programs that'll keep us going and ...
BILL CARTER Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motiv...
ERALDO BANOVAC The new parking ramp will offer long-term and short-term parking for the million-plus travelers that...
BRUCE SCHEDLBAUER But this is a long-term thing. There isn't going to be any short, quick answer to this one.
DAVID WIMHURST This money is going to determine how you live in the long run. So if you can deal with short-term em...
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ROB ANDERSON Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and t...
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JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN So in the short term it might put pressure on management. But in the long term, it creates a lot of ...
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DAVID OTTO This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term dam...
BARNEY FRANK The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greate...
MAXWELL MALTZ In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we ...
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ERIC JACOBSON Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, b...
NELSON MANDELA I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the...
JARED DIAMOND Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
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STEVE TIMMS This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term dam...
BARNEY FRANK This is not going to change anything in the short-term (for prices) because most contracts are long-...
DANIEL SIMMONS All the short-term plans have been coordinated. Since 2004, the ministry has been allowed to conclud...
SERGEI IVANOV You have to have a long-term outlook on both. But we're optimistic that we can get both of them done...
ZYGI WILF This would not have happened if the FAA would not have imposed flight caps. They are a short-term so...
WENDY ABRAMS This is a long-term problem, it's a long-term energy crisis, which has not been addressed by either ...
ELIA GERMANI No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity...
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JARED DIAMOND In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me hap...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD