The Power of Patience in Life, Business, and Investing
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We live in a world that rewards speed—where reacting quickly is often mistaken for making smart decisions.
But if you look at the most successful investors, founders, and creators, they share one overlooked advantage:
They just keep showing up.
The people who win aren’t the ones who overreact to every high and low. They are the ones who stay patient, confident, and committed to the long game.
📌 The most urgent decisions are rarely the most important ones.
Think about it:
Selling a stock during a market dip just because everyone is panicking? Usually a mistake.
Are you rushing to invest in a hyped startup because every VC is trying to get in? Often leads to overpaying and irrational decisions.
Trying to build a company overnight instead of brick by brick? That’s how businesses collapse.
📌 The best investors, founders, and builders know that patience is a competitive advantage.
The Market is Impatient, But You Shouldn’t Be
A perfect example: Nvidia and DeepSeek.
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched, Nvidia became the undisputed AI chip leader. Its stock soared, reaching a $3.4 trillion market cap.
But markets often overreact—to both good news and bad.
Recently, DeepSeek, a Chinese competitor,
was announced. The market momentarily panicked, questioning Nvidia’s dominance.
But here’s the thing:
The best companies don’t win in a day. They win over decades.
📌 Those who sell too soon or react emotionally to market swings often miss out on long-term gain.
Jensen Huang: From Dishwasher to Building a $3.4 Trillion Empire
I love stories about underdogs—people who start with nothing but keep going anyway.
Jensen Huang’s story is a great example.
At 15 years old, he worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant.
Years later, in 1993, he co-founded Nvidia with $40,000 in savings—with no clear business model.
For the first four years, the company struggled:
✔️ Their early products failed.
✔️ They almost ran out of cash—three times.
The turning point?
Betting on GPUs for gaming—which eventually led to breakthroughs in AI and deep learning.
Decades of persistence turned Nvidia into the most valuable semiconductor company in history.
“If you want to build something great, it’s not easy. You have to suffer, you have to struggle, you have to endeavor.”
Jensen Huang
📌 Success isn’t about speed. It’s about endurance.
Netflix’s Squid Game: A 12-Year Overnight Success
We often hear about overnight successes. But if you look closer, most of them took years—sometimes decades—to happen.
That’s exactly what happened with Squid Game, the South Korean series that became Netflix’s biggest show of all time.
The 12-Year Struggle Before Success
💡 Squid Game was written by Hwang Dong-hyuk in 2009.
He pitched the idea to studios.
Everyone rejected it.
They said it was too unrealistic, too violent, too strange.
For nearly a decade, no one believed in his vision.
Hwang also struggled financially:
He had to sell his laptop to afford basic living expenses.
He doubted whether his script would ever be made.
But he didn’t give up. He held onto his idea, knowing the world would eventually be ready for it.
Netflix Took a Bet—And It Paid Off
In 2019, a decade after its creation, Netflix took a risk on Squid Game, as it expanded into global content.
Within 28 days, Squid Game hit 111 million viewers—the biggest launch in Netflix history.
It became a cultural phenomenon, sparking global conversations.
Hwang Dong-hyuk, who once struggled to pay his bills, won an Emmy for Best Director.
A 12-year “overnight” success.
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By 2019, it had risen to $4,000.