Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean...

War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?” he said. “Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?””Absol—well, okay.” “Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?””All right, I’ll grant you that, but—””Saving civilization from a horde of—” “It doesn’t...

You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short run to outperform in the long run. While copying what others already do helps achieve average results quickly, common approaches never outperform....

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.