Lord Acton Quotes

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

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

We are not able to sacrifice our short term interests for the sake of the long term.

I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

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.

Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.