“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?” IfsShouldStillsImportantGrowthTermFocusMissingAskingDecadesImportant Questions Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.” NeedsImportantEnvironmentMetsAchievementMental HealthEnvironmentalDecadesCleanersEnvironmental Health Author:Samuel Wilson
“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.” IfsKnowsWayYearsLongImportantCountryBigsTermEnvironmentTaxesProjectsImportant ThingsSeekingDecadesLong TermPredictablePayback Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.” IfsWantShouldArtImportantEnoughPlayToolsDecidedDecadesSober Author:Kris Kristofferson
“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.” YearsTwoImportantPastThreeMemoriesViewsCenturyEvidenceYears AgoSevenCurrentsDecadesJournalistBritainOur SocietyComparisonJustifyRelevantDrunkennessSobrietyIlluminating Author:Anthony Daniels