Long-Term View Quotes

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

We do have to take the long-term view. And long term, the question to ask ourselves is whether America should attack others pre-emptively, whether she should embroil herself in wars far away from our soil, and try to bring democracy by force to the rest of the world.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

The problem with climate change has always been that whilst political timeframes and economic investment timeframes work on a 3-5year cycle, the planet needs a rather longer term view.

Successful investing is all about common sense.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

In a hundred years the historian will understand me better.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the world. Flash forward a year and ask, "Is this really going to be that big of a deal? In the long run, it's really not".

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.