Good decisions can have bad SHORT-TERM outcomes but be GREAT for the business LONG-TERM.
For too LONG, the world has been focused on short-term growth and DEVELOPMENT at the expense of our long-term survival as we have depleted our NATURAL resources at HISTORICALLY reckless rates.
You can't build a fashion business with a SHORT-TERM perspective, unless you're PREPARED to make INVESTMENTS that you KNOW are not going to pay dividends immediately.
One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively SHORT-TERM. In the Middle East and Asia and other PARTS of the world, they think in terms of CENTURIES or 500 YEARS or 1,000 years.
Most PEOPLE don't take the long-term VIEW. The media is more of a short-term REACTIONARY view.