Long-Term Gain Quotes

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

There will be times you make decisions that actually detract from growth.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

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

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Injuries should all be done together in order that men may taste their bitterness but a short time and be little disturbed. Benefits ought to be conferred a little at a time, that their flavor may be tasted better.

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

In the long run, trade works for America.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.