No great thing is created suddenly.
Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'
I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.
This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.
A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
One generation plants the trees. Another gets the shade.
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.
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.
Reform is a process, and not an event.
Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
Your habits will determine your future.
A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Efforts to constrain encryption through forms of extraordinary access will inevitably introduce vulnerabilities into the security of consumer products in ways that are likely to have adverse long-term effects on the security, privacy, and civil liberties of citizens.
Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.
There's a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.
You have to build businesses for longer term.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
