Long-term thinking is a secret weapon.

The Future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

The longer you are living on autopilot, the harder the future is going to be.

Your future is constantly shrinking, so the longer you spend preparing for it, the smaller it's going to be.

An ambitious goal sets the bar so high that even a failure can be considered a success by ordinary standards. If your dreams don't frighten you, they are not big enough.

Our present (in)actions will compound into the future we will experience - that's a great way to think about what lies ahead.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

A man without a vision for his future always returns to his past.

In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

We overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a decade.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.

Vision without execution is hallucination. Execution without vision is drudgery.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Short-term thinking is borrowing happiness from the future at a very high interest rate.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

We are now in the second half of the chessboard, where exponential growth creates consequences we can no longer ignore.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Long-term thinking requires short-term discomfort. Instant gratification requires long-term pain.

Civilization is the slow process of learning to be kind to strangers.

The seeds of tomorrow's forests are in today's surviving trees.

We are playing a finite game in an infinite universe, but we must play as if our choices echo through eternity.

Your legacy should be measured not by what you accomplished, but by what you planted that will outlive you.

The future is not a destination we arrive at, but a path we create with each decision.

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it.

The long now requires thinking about consequences that extend beyond our own lifespan.