Strategic Waiting Quotes

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.'

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

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.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

I traditionally like to be patient, calm and look for openings - try to box for a few rounds until I figure out what the best thing in the ring will be for me.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Don’t get in the way when your opponents are destroying themselves.

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."