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...
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.
Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
