“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”

“In the short term, there is scant room for dreaming, for one must choose between being taken seriously and being visionary. In the long term, however, leadership cannot afford to overlook the wisdom of dreams, even the wisdom of playful dreaming. Vision that bounds higher than the barriers that confine us often spring from earnest playfulness.”

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say”

“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”

“Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.”