Hyman Rickover Quotes

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

I think long-term, not short-term.

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.

Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.

I like surrounding myself with people who think in sort of the timeframes I do, which is often longer.