The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.


Mohnish Pabrai

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You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
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I threw one pitch, and she was waiting for it and rocked me.
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Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
SHARON WEIL
Don't rush into love. You'll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.
FRANZIE GUBATINA
I might have to wait, I'll never give up
I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck
MICHEAL BUBBLE
You have to give it a loveshot somehow
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI
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I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right person
to spend his for...
JOHN MARK GREEN
Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”

Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’v...
SAMUEL TAYLOR
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don...
MARK STEYN
Patience is a virtue and the best things in life are worth waiting for.
JULIE SPIRA
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capac...
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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...
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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The Ache That Would Not Leave

Behind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a per...
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Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our cap...
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In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set...
COLIN FIRTH
All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
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Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.
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As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
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Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a mo...
CHLOE THURLOW
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
JOYCE MEYER
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
LAUREN WILLIG
There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
JIM BUTCHER
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
PAULO COELHO
We've been very aggressive at the plate until today. That was pretty disappointing. It seemed like w...
JOHN FINN
Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Wh...
DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY
As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
The World is waiting for you, what are you waiting for?
SOTONYE ANGA
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
WILLIAM EMPSON
I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. W...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
God is waiting, heaven is waiting, and the heavenly army is waiting for us to move forward and accom...
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Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come a...
CHLOE M. GOODEN
Waiting so long... for 0 result?
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We're in a holding pattern waiting for that. We haven't received a decision and the election is righ...
LEE HANEY
A deal [with United] is in the makings. Right now I'm waiting for it, so I can get it signed.
DOMENIC MEDIATE
Without Time, Life would not exist, so why waste your life, by waiting for the right time
JOHN VINCENT ABRAHAM
As of right now, I have three counselors waiting for people.
DON LYNN
I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.
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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But ...
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
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We have been calling for the vaccine right from the beginning. We can't keep waiting for the governm...
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Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year...
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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just ...
ANITA BROOKNER
This family has been waiting for 15 years for answers. It only takes one phone call.
KIM PETERSEN
If what you are waiting for is taking too long, stop waiting, go for it
SOTONYE ANGA
if you are waiting for right excuse then it is good because some conclusions always are necessary fo...
PēTERIS BITāNS
Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
SUZE ROTOLO
In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has alre...
ROBERT GOOLRICK
Waiting for you
is as delightful as
waiting for sunset.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I've been waiting for a few years for prices to stabilize and it hasn't happened yet.
BONNIE FITZGERALD
Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my...
CAMRYN MANHEIM
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
DAVID MITCHELL
Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Everyone's always waiting for someone to falter.
GLENN FICARRA
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain you...
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We spent 30 years waiting for them to widen Lacey Road and now we are going to spend another 30 year...
JOHN PARKER
I've been waiting for this moment for four years.
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I knew he was struggling a little bit. Against (Ryan) Wilkes, ahead of me, he was staying outside pr...
ANTONE DEJESUS
If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
CURTIS SLIWA
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
ROBERT BROWNING
And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last jud...
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Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape...
MARYSE HOLDER
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DAVID WEINBERGER
If I am Eowyn... then you are my Aragorn... but where is my Faramir?
C LIONG
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actu...
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You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you di...
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Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ...
HILARY DUFF
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
ZOE KAZAN
He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.
IBRAHIM GAMBARI
It's a role I've been waiting for four years.
LAMONT JORDAN
He was throwing every pitch for a strike, and he threw it at the right spot.
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If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so ...
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the ma...
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I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.
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It is a long-awaited decision. We have been waiting for last three years.
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CHARLIE MANUEL
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
DARIUS RUCKER
I'm just waiting for the time when it's going to come together. I've been waiting for a while.
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We've been waiting for this game right here. It's just another game . . . on the way to the state ch...
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What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the pr...
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The machine has been out there for about four or five years in different places in the country. We'v...
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