Mollie Beattie Quotes

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

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

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

The long view counts.

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

Countries are very reluctant to impose short term pain for long term gain.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

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

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

People (political and military leaders) much prefer to speak of what they are going to do rather than what the outcome will be.

The long run may be too long.

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

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

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to the operation during a single year, or even a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Momentary passions and immediate interests have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility or justice.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

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.

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

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now