Quotes on Long Term Success

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

Long-term success requires faith-faith that your efforts to plan and execute the process will lead to the desired outcome.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.