Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I think long-term, not short-term.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

The long run may be too long.

The long view counts.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.

We won't know for a few years.

I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

I can solve every problem a year later.

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

When you look at the work you do every day, you do see things. But if you look at the work you did for 25 years, suddenly you start to get a more complete picture.

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.