If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
Patience is emotional diligence.
Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.
I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.
We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.
I've always kind of been a guy that's played the whole season.
Having spent almost 25 years in different roles within Investor, I have truly enjoyed working with creating long-term value in our companies.
I just continue to work on what I want to work on, and I'm not rushing to achieve anything, really.
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when
We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.
Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants.
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
I am a firm believer of staying the course, you can never time success or being in the right place at the right time. But you can sure work on creating multiple opportunities for the same.
I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.
The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.
Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.
I think it's pretty important that you learn how to keep your own scoreboard and how to be focused on what truly matters over the long term.
