Quotes about Short-sighted

Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

John Glenn

We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.

Dalai Lama

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Roy Nelson

Stupid can't fix stupid.

Thomas Carlyle

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Charles Francis Adams II

The modern Southern politician is the least far-seeing of all our short-sighted classes of American statesmen….

In addition to this put down of Southern politicians, this quotation shows us that politically short sighted leaders in modern America is not a unique phenomenon. Adams makes this general complaint about politicians in 1861, North and South. The lesser assessment of Southern politicians continued into modern times and will likely exist until the South reaches educational, industrial, cultural and scientific parity with the rest of the nation.

P. J. O'Rourke

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

Joseph Chamberlain

In politics there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Winston Churchill is an entirely bellicose individual…no long term views

Carl Sagan

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power..

J. K. Rowling

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

Ben Askren

Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.

Vladimir Putin

Here is the thing: I have seen several times that anti-Russian cards are being played during domestic campaigns in the United States. I find this approach very short-sighted.

Todd Young

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

Imogen Heap

I just try to do day to day. I'm really bad like that. People get annoyed with me for not thinking far enough in advance. Not having these big, grand goals. There's so much going on in the present. I have trouble dealing with anything longer than that.

Julia Stiles

We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

Mike Krieger

Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.

Rick Warren

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

Sachin Tendulkar

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

Bethany McLean

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

Bill Watterson

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Oscar Arias

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

Milton Friedman

In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to their basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom... .

Whether blameworthy or not, the use of the cloak of social responsibility, and the nonsense spoken in its name by influential and prestigious businessmen, does clearly harm the foundations of a free society. I have been impressed time and again by the schizophrenic character of many businessmen. They are capable of being extremely far-sighted and clear-headed in matters that are internal to their businesses. They are incredibly short-sighted and muddle-headed in matters that are outside their businesses but affect the possible survival of business in general. This short-sightedness is strikingly exemplified in the calls from many businessmen for wage and price guidelines or controls or income policies. There is nothing that could do more in a brief period to destroy a market system and replace it by a centrally controlled system than effective governmental control of prices and wages.

The short-sightedness is also exemplified in speeches by businessmen on social responsibility. This may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked and immoral and must be curbed and controlled by external forces. Once this view is adopted, the external forces that curb the market will not be the social consciences, however highly developed, of the pontificating executives; it will be the iron fist of Government bureaucrats. Here, as with price and wage controls, businessmen seem to me to reveal a suicidal impulse.

Sienna Miller

I definitely have been foolish.

Short-sighted Quotes