To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.

There is no substitute for personally visiting companies and their countries.

The best time to invest is when you have money. The best time to sell is when you need money.

I think the key to investing is having a strong stomach and being patient.

-- Bill Ackman

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

-- Hideyo Noguchi

The experiments proceed slowly. At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when I carried on several experiments simultaneously.

-- Gregor Mendel

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

-- Louis Pasteur

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.

-- Phil Knight