Play the Long Game Quotes

“Play long-term games with long-term people.”

“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

“Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.”

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.”

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

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”

“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.”

“There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“Never give up: Great things take time.”

“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”

“Our favorite holding period is forever”

“Don't give up what you want most for what you want now.”

“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”

“Make haste slowly.”

“What appears to be sudden success is often the result of years of hard work and perseverance.”

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”

“The key factor in my strategy is longevity”

“You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“The media wants overnight successes so they have someone to tear down. Ignore them. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul.”

“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”

“Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“A strategy—whether in companies or in life—is created through hundreds of everyday decisions about how you spend your time, energy, and money.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”

“Genius is eternal patience.”

“Our strategy is to invest in the long term”

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”

“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.”

“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”

“Wealth is a process, not an event.”

“When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”

“Be brutally honest about the short term, and optimistic and confident about the long term.”

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

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”

“Impatience never commanded success.”

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

“Little by little, one travels far.”

“Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”

“The end goal is to build generationally defining businesses, and that doesn't happen quickly. It's about taking the foundations of what we've built, not sacrificing any of your principles and still being able to grow and to thrive.”

“Focus on the long game - quick wins fade fast”

“Macro patience, micro speed.”

“Infinite patience produces immediate results.”

“As you sow, so shall you reap.”

“We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“During the day you should behave in such a way that you can sleep at night in peace; and in your youth you should behave in such a way that you can live in your old age in peace.”

“Slow and steady wins the race.”

“Life isn't a sprint; it's a marathon.”

“Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm, to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”

“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”