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Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.  1988.
 
 
NUMBER:5066
AUTHOR:Sydney J Harris
QUOTATION:An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
ATTRIBUTION:Reader’s Digest May 79
SUBJECTS:Humankind: Wisdom, Philosophy & Other Musings
 
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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