Quotes About Patience

Often the worst thing you can do with a difficult question is to try to answer it too quickly. When the mind is coming up with What If possibilities, these fresh, new ideas can take time to percolate and form. They often result from connecting existing ideas in unusual and interesting ways.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it."

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

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

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

[The] stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

over, every minute of every day, for a whole month. But nobody could do that without going mad with frustration.

He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often," Chiun had said, and this had

To gain the right to pray when it rains, one must also pray when the sun shines.

When you have a Thai girlfriend you never lose her - you just sometimes lose your place in the queue

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to.

I've heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.