An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
In the long run we are all dead.
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.
My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras....
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.
People always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.
I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.
I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.
Giovanni de Medici
I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'
One of the hardest things in politics is getting a democracy to deal with something now where the payoff is long term or the price of inaction is decades away.
