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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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
“Slow and steady wins the race.”
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“Make haste slowly.”
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“Don't give up what you want most for what you want now.”
“Little by little, one travels far.”
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.”
“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
“Macro patience, micro speed.”
“Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.”
“Seek instant gratification – or the elusive promise of it – and chances are you’ll find a crowd there ahead of you.”
“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”
“They call it perfect timing after years of long-term patience.”
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
“Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.”
“A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination”
“Get moving and find what works, then do it for decades.”
“Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.”
“Change can take years - before it happens all at once.”
“If you spend 1 hour working toward a 10-year project-and you repeat this day after day-you’re going to end up living a lovely life.”
“Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.”
“Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.”
“Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.”
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”
“Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.”
“Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you.”
“When you’ve got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That’s rule No. 1 of business.”
