Future-oriented mindset Quotes

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

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.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.