Sentence examples for short-term mind from inspiring English sources

There is a powerful dollars and cents case to be made for companies and investors to be finding solutions to the preeminent environmental issues of our times -- climate change and natural resource scarcity -- and to eschew the short-term mind set that too often sacrifices long term prosperity on the altar of quarterly performance.

For Mr. Brown, this short-term mind-set is one of the cultural challenges of doing business here.

Sure, it's true that a dual-class structure shelters a visionary founder from the pressure to meet quarterly earnings goals or else risk being driven from the firm by short-term minded investors brandishing pitchforks.

PE: The corporate world is extremely short-term minded.

Part of the problem, Galbraith argues, is that investors have become much more short term-minded.

This is the same short-term, ideological mind-set that has driven the Conservatives' approach to housing, and explains the last six years of failure: from home-ownership which is down by 200,000 to homelessness doubling.

Women with short-term mating in mind may be more direct in their gazing and dress more provocatively.

Blues general manager Doug Armstrong made the deal with a more short-term objective in mind.

"[T]he new breed that is leading the Republican Congress have, I think, nothing but a short-term goal in mind.

Most of our instantaneous reactions lean towards short-term -- often mind-numbing -- gratification.

I'd gamble on fly-half George Ford as captain for the Six Nations Championship, or even pick a captain match by match in the short-term, and keep in mind that if a certain Sam Burgess spends another year in rugby union and becomes a Test-standard flanker he would be a great fit as skipper.