Long Term Planning Quotes

"Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'" "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you" "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." "We don't focus on the optics of the next quarter; we focus on what is going to be good for customers." "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."