Quotes About Consistency

The best way to learn is through experience. To continue to improve, add to your experience, take small steps, and do it every day.

You have an independent income, the only thing that never lets you down.

One grain of sand at a time. One task at a time.

You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

you just don't want someone else to control a big part of the user experience. People may disagree with me, but I am pretty consistent about that.

slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

Charlie and I would follow a buy-and-hold policy even if we ran a tax-exempt institution.

If you invested in a low-cost index fund--where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years--you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

We do not talk one-on-one to large institutional investors or analysts, but rather treat all shareholders the same.

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Wayne W. Dyer

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get?

It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written over more than two decades and infer from them a consistent personal attitude. Lines belong in a dramatic context and in the psychological context of the character who utters them and cannot be taken to reflect Shakespeare's views.

What never changes is your desire to change

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

It's not possible for investors to consistently outperform the market. Therefore you're best served investing in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds [or exchange-traded funds].