Quotes About Patience

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

My favourite holding period is forever

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.

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

Warren Buffett

you should imagine market quotations as coming from a remarkably accommodating fellow named Mr. Market who is your partner in a private business. Without fail, Mr. Market appears daily and names a price at which he will either buy your interest or sell you his... Mr. Market has another endearing characteristic: He doesn't mind being ignored. p 209

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.

Some Thoughts About Investing

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.

The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.

if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.

God's way of salvation is in Christ, not in your own self. Patience is in Christ, humility is in Christ, holiness is in Christ. All is in Christ. In you, yourself, there is always uncleanness and unholiness. If you live in Christ, you have everything. But if you live in your self, you remain unchanged. UNITED

Everything shows up in Divine time. We get what we need on the schedule of a force much larger than ourselves. This invisible force moves the pieces around in its own way, in its own time, to harmonize with the perfect precision that defines every cubic inch of space and time.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

It says, "Dear Wayne: The sun is shining behind the clouds.

Infinite patience produces immediate results." It sounds like a paradox, doesn't it? Infinite patience implies an absolute certainty that what you'd like to manifest will indeed show up, in perfect order, and exactly on time. The immediate result you receive from this inner knowing is a sense of peace. When you detach from the outcome, you're at peace, and you'll ultimately see the fruits of your convictions.