Play the Long Game Quotes
Most men overestimate a year and underestimate a decade. The man who plays the long game lets time and consistency do work that intensity alone never could. This Vision path holds history's wisest quotes on patience and compounding. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
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“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
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“Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.”
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“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
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“Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.”
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“Focus on the long game - quick wins fade fast”
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“Our favorite holding period is forever”
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“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient”
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“The key factor in my strategy is longevity”
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“Our strategy is to invest in the long term”
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“As you sow, so shall you reap.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Play long-term games with long-term people.”
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“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
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“The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”
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“The years teach much which the days never know.”
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“You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”
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“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.”
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“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
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“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.”
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“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”
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“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.”
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“Be brutally honest about the short term, and optimistic and confident about the long term.”
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“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
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“A strategy—whether in companies or in life—is created through hundreds of everyday decisions about how you spend your time, energy, and money.”
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
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“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.”
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
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“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”
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“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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“No great thing is created suddenly.”
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“The road to success is always under construction.”
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“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
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“There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”
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“If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
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“Life isn't a sprint; it's a marathon.”
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“Genius is eternal patience.”
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“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.”
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“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.”
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“Never give up: Great things take time.”
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“What appears to be sudden success is often the result of years of hard work and perseverance.”
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“Wealth is a process, not an event.”
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“The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.”
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“Infinite patience produces immediate results.”
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“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.”
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“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.”
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“Impatience never commanded success.”
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