Quotes About Patience

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Investing is simple, but not easy.

The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!

Money is made by sitting, not trading.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

If you invested in a very 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.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!

Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.