Anthony Crosland Quotes

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.