Goes back to that old line
Goes back to that old line: People overestimate what can be done in two years and underestimate what can be done in ten.
— from Time
In the book
And it rewards a pairing the impatient never discover: the two most powerful warriors, Tolstoy wrote, are patience and time, for nothing worthwhile is built instantly — real success is assembled slowly, layer on layer, by people willing to wait. Which is why we so reliably miscalculate, overestimating wildly what we can do in two years and badly underestimating what we can do in ten. Now the rough air — the ways we waste the one thing we can never replace, most of which I am guilty of myself. — Time