Steven Ford Quotes

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

I think long-term, not short-term.

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

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

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

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

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.

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

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

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

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

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

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

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 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.

When I make decisions, I'm not thinking about my parents. I'm thinking about my children.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.