“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.” LongEnergyTermCompanyProduceBuildingPressureFinancialChiefsBoardsLong TermExecutivesExpensesOfficersEarningFinancial MarketsTakeoversChief Executives Author:J. Irwin Miller
“Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.” LongSoulJoyTermProducePerspectiveMake SenseLong TermPeace And Joy Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.” LongTermEmotionAttentionBrainPracticeStudyMeditationBloodProduceFlowFunctionSignificantLong TermRelatedAndrewCerebralAlterationsBlood Flow Book:Hallucinations Source: Hallucinations
“We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.” ThinkingNeedsLongGrowthTermEconomicProduceFoundationStrategyInvestmentBridgesLong TermInfrastructureStrategicStimulants Author:Roger McNamee
“Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.” LongRealCountryGrowthTermEconomyEconomicProduceComputerModelsUnderstoodInvestmentFixedLong TermGoodsDriversAssetsEconomic GrowthHypeSlickFinanciersCapital Investment Author:Richard Karn
“Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.” WayLongUseDifficultTermRiskProducePerspectiveGunPressureCrowdsAll TimeLong TermShort TermOrientationPostureRisk-taking Author:Seth Klarman
“We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.” LongTermAnswersGenerationsTeachingStudentsProduceDemandComfortableLong TermAmbiguityImplicationsSchooledRight Answers Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson