Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself,
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Carl Honoré, in his book In Praise of Slow, sums it up beautifully: Fast and slow do more than just describe a rate of change. They are shorthand for ways of being, or philosophies of life. Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient, active, quantity-over-quality. Slow is the opposite: calm, careful
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When you go slow, things are smoother. You have time to observe, to plan, to coordinate efforts. But go too slow and you may get stuck or lose your momentum.
Greg Mckeown • Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
The ability to grasp this concept—time and patience—may be the delta between people who have the talent to make a living vs. those who have the requisite mindset to build wealth.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Fast gets all the attention.
Slow has all the power.
Slow has all the power.
Bad things can happen fast but almost all good things happen slowly
Patience, I believe, is a core competency of a healthy civilization. I propose that it is useful and realistic to think of a civilization as operating at a number of different paces at the same time. Fashion and commerce change quickly, as they should. Nature and culture change slowly, as they should. Infrastructure and governance move along at mid... See more
Stewart Brand • Taking the Long View
Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be