How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping their enrichment. But as long as America says we're going to stay out here and we're not going to drop the stick, we're going to pound you if we have to, it's not going to work.
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.
The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.
Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.
There are no long-term lessons - ever.
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.
The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.
If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.
A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.
I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"
I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.
As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.
Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
