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.
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Related You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I threw one pitch, and she was waiting for it and rocked me. ASHLEY HOBBS I'm ready for the challenge. I've been waiting for so many years to get this chance and right now th... MATHIEU GARON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Part of fencing is psychological, using your mind, patience and waiting for the right moment to stri... DR. MICHELLE PRETTYMAN I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I... FETTY WAP There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert liste... GLENN GOULD 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 I mean it was right down the middle, a fastball. I'm sure he was waiting on it and he got his pitch ... JASON CHILDERS 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... ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right... DAN CASTELLANETA Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha... SOURCE UNKNOWN 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... JOHN MARK GREEN Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. PAULO COELHO It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our cap... ELIZABETH TAYLOR 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... KAMAND KOJOURI Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient. AULIQ ICE As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single. BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN Waiting for the right time to accumulate riches is a poverty syndrome,for today is the right time to... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 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,
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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... SUNDAY ADELAJA 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? DEYTH BANGER 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. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But ... MARIAN ANDERSON Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I... IAN MCKELLEN We have been calling for the vaccine right from the beginning. We can't keep waiting for the governm... AUWALU HARUNA Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year... LOUIS L'AMOUR 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... RAY A. DAVIS 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. KRISTEN NASH 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... BRIAN MOORE Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape... MARYSE HOLDER Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been ... 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... RACHEL CUSK You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you di... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI 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. ADAM EVERETT If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so ... MANDY HALE You have lines of people outside Apple stores waiting for the latest iPhone, which adds to the hype ... JOHN QUELCH (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. S... GARY PAULSEN Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the ma... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day. ANTHONY LICCIONE It is a long-awaited decision. We have been waiting for last three years. ARUN KEJRIWAL We started chasing bad balls and not waiting for our pitch [later in the game]. It disturbs me when ... 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. CARLOS BELTRAN Forever it seems like we've been waiting for the purse strings to open. They're not opening that wid... JOHN GRAHAM You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU In Scotland, 13 patients have died in each of the last two years and many more have had to be remove... ANDY KERR We've been waiting for this game right here. It's just another game . . . on the way to the state ch... CAMERON SMITH What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the pr... MANDY HALE The machine has been out there for about four or five years in different places in the country. We'v... ED DOWNEY
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