- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
- Bull
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
- Flak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
- GE
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
- Excitement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020