“Patience precedes profits” or “Patience precedes prosperity” (Wall Street adage)

“Patience is a virtue” is a proverb that has been cited in print since at least the fifth century.
 
“Patience precedes prosperity” has been cited in print since at least 1936. “Patience precedes profits” was cited in the book Dividends Don’t Lie: Finding Value in Blue-Chip Stocks (1988).
 
   
The Contrary Opinion—Buttons
Patience Precedes Profits
Alliterative and simple. Patience means waiting to buy until a growth stock sets up in a high-potential pattern. Patience means waiting to buy until your value stock gets cheap enough. And patience means holding patiently as your stock climbs, until you get an exit signal.
   
3 May 1936, San Francisco (CA) Chronicle, “Joe Jinks Featuring Dynamite Dunn” (comic strip), comic section:
(An experienced fisherman explains fishing to a boy.—ed.)
THERE WERE A FEW MOTTOS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW—
“PATIENCE AND GREATNESS GO HAND IN HAND”
“PATIENCE PRECEDES PROSPERITY”
 
Google Books
Dividends Don’t Lie:
Finding Value in Blue-Chip Stocks
By Geraldine Weiss and Janet Lowe
Chicago, IL: Longman Financial Services Publishing
1988
Pg. 62:
Patience Precedes Profits
 
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J.Buchanan
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Patience precedes prosperity…
3:23 PM - 27 Jun 2013
 
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Bobby Sokolnicki
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Patience Precedes Profit. #EverythingZeN
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Michael M. Butler
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Patience precedes success. Can’t have one without the other.
10:22 PM - 14 Dec 2015
Philadelphia, PA