Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

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

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

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

A nation has to look ahead.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

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.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for governments and it's true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.