Glenn Kelman Quotes

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

The long view counts.

We need investors who plant and grow, not reap and run.

You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

I think high turnover is definitively the investor's enemy, so you don't want to bring a high-turnover philosophy to this business. You want to have a long-term philosophy.

I could have signed 10 films after 'Jai Ho,' but those films would have done nothing for me. I wanted to wait for the right project.

I think a coach, like a business leader who has people under him, needs to know how to wait patiently for the results of the work.

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Good startups usually take 10 years.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people – not that I’m better than most people – always have to be playing; they always have to be doing something. They make a big play and say, “Boy, am I smart, I just tripled my money.” Then they rush out and have to do something else with that money. They can’t just sit there and wait for something new to develop