Long Term Thinking Quotes

“After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded, for there might come difficult paths again ahead.”
― Sanu Sharma, फरक [Pharak]

“Corporate governance involves its fair share of differing investor expectations, but focusing on long-term value creation aligns interests.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“The paradox of short-term thinking is that it often ends up being more damaging and more expensive than longer-term thinking.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Exercising the muscles for long-term thinking can make you visionary.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“To achieve alignment by stakeholders across time horizons, long-term thinking needs to prevail in a world of endemic short-termism.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
― Warren Buffett

“The myopia that largely dogged me my entire life kept me rooted in the here and now, and hardly anything else ever crossed my mind, especially if it was to take place in some far-off distant future never-never land. Such places did not exist in my limited scope of reality.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“Strength can be defeated with strategy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I think the way life has been structured is in such a way that we give platforms and foundations to the next generation, and this should be the natural way of living.”
― Lawrence Namale

“Time is river, it washes away much of our endeavors and sins often.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“This focus on the short term is hard to reconcile with any fundamental view of investing. We can examine the drivers of equity returns to see what we need to understand in order to invest. At a one-year time horizon, the vast majority of your total return comes from changes in valuation—which are effectively random fluctuations in price. However, at a five-year time horizon, 80 percent of your total return is generated by the price you pay for the investment plus the growth in the underlying cash flow. These are the aspects of investment that fundamental investors should understand, and they clearly only matter in the long term.”
― James Montier, The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy

“If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple.
And you were also dead wrong—for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer.”
― Mencius Moldbug, An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

“Because we’re disconnected from our Future Selves, we opt for near immediate goals or dopamine hits. This short-term seeking ends up costing our Future Selves big.

[Example of this, from comedian Jerry Seinfeld]
Late at night, I think, “Well, it’s night, I’m having a good time, I don’t want to go to sleep. I’m Night Guy. Getting up after five hours’ sleep? That’s Morning Guy’s problem. Let him worry about that. I’m Night Guy, I’ve got to party.”
Then you get up after five hours of sleep, you’re cranky, you’re exhausted.
Night Guy always screws Morning Guy.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Let's not butcher the calf, when we can milk the cow.”
― Ian J. Saul

“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”
― Johnny Depp

“Evaluate, adjust, and grow, this is the formula for long-term success.”
― Glody Kikonga, MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind

“Comfort is expensive. And the cost is your potential.”
― Joseph C. Kunz Jr., Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
― Pamela Cox

“Most people complete their formal education without ever learning how money actually works.”
― Joseph Tallal, Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success