Temperament Quotes

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

You are yoked with a lamb,That carries anger as the flint bears fire;Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,And straight is cold again.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.