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5 ways to become a Patient Investor

Mayank Shekhar Dwivedi
8 min readJan 1, 2024

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What is the fuss?

Veteran investors such as Warren Buffet often advise other investors to be patient. One of Mr. Buffet’s famous sayings goes like this: ‘Stock Market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient’.

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But what exactly does being patient mean? How does it reward investors? And if being patient is the way to go, then how to become one?

These are some of the questions I will try to answer in this post. To start, let's see how being patient rewards investors. And then, I will share 5 ways one can become a patient investor. Let’s get started.

Patience Reward 1: Peace of Mind

The stock market is a whirlwind of emotions. Red and green ticks mar the daily run in the stock market. It can become exhausting really fast. And if this wasn’t enough, volatility and market downturns add to the anxiety.

But, for a patient investor, it matters not. Not as much. The patient investor knows the vagaries of the stock market. It knows that it will go up and down. That there are unseen factors that will occur, and negatively impact the market.

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Mayank Shekhar Dwivedi
Mayank Shekhar Dwivedi

Written by Mayank Shekhar Dwivedi

I am on a journey to become Financially Free by 2030 | An Indian Retail Investor since 2016 | IIT Bombay BTech; Oxford MBA

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