Term Quotes

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Broke is a Hollywood term!

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

You get to define the terms of your life.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

I want to go out on my terms.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Long-term vision and product strategy.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.