Forget "get rich quick"! The OG moneymakers of value investing built fortunes on patience & smarts. Here are the 12 creators behind value investing's most successful strategies:

Most people are attracted to value investing because it promises better returns. The real gift is something deeper. It teaches patience in a world obsessed with speed. It teaches discipline in a world driven by impulses. It teaches conviction when everyone else is chasing the next shiny opportunity. That is why the best value investors often become better decision-makers, not just wealthier individuals. As Buffett demonstrated, wealth is rarely built through constant action. It is built through thoughtful action, repeated consistently over long periods of time. Value investing is not simply a strategy for compounding capital. It is a framework for compounding character. And in the end, character is what allows wealth to endure. Follow me @PRamanathan for more such value investing insights.

9 Timeless Templeton Lessons That Still Apply Today:

I have spent forty years around money. This week, a friend reminded me how little of it actually matters. Guy Spier is one of the most respected value investors of his generation. He won a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. He built ValueX in Zurich — the community I have travelled to almost since it began, and the reason ValueX Middle East exists today. Now @GSpier is living with glioblastoma. He has closed his fund. He sent every outside investor their money back. And in his interview with CNBC, he said something I cannot stop thinking about. He said every day is now a gift. He said his job is to win as many points as he can against the Grim Reaper — not by fighting, but by doing the things he loves and not hurting anyone along the way. And he said the courage everyone sees in him is not courage at all. It is the love coming in from the people around him. Here is a man who could talk about markets, returns, and track records for hours. And when the noise fell away, what he wanted to talk about was truth, love, and the people he gets to spend his days with. That is the whole lesson. It always was. Guy, my friend — thank you. For the community you gave us, and for showing us how to live while you are teaching us how to face the hardest thing of all. youtube.com/watch?v=TbQhb04P…

Every time you log in during a market decline, you face a choice. Hold or sell. The right answer is almost always hold. But the experience of watching the number fall creates pressure that rational analysis alone cannot overcome. The more you check, the more often you face that pressure.

Buffett's favorite holding period: forever. That sounds extreme. Until you see what it produced. Coca-Cola: bought in 1988. Still held today. The original investment has multiplied more than 20 times. Time did most of the work.

Investors who check their portfolios less frequently make better decisions. Not because they are less informed. Because they have fewer opportunities to act on short-term discomfort. Every check is an invitation to interrupt.

The discomfort of watching a position fall is temporary. The cost of selling prematurely is permanent. Most investors experience the discomfort. Few are still invested long enough to receive the permanent gain.

1942. Buffett is eleven years old. Buys Cities Service Preferred at $38. Falls to $27. Holds, nervously. Recovers to $40. Sells. Relieved. Stock later rises to $200. He learned what impatience costs before he could drive.

The market does not reward activity. It rewards patience. Most investors confuse movement with progress. Design your portfolio to minimize unnecessary decisions. Every decision is an opportunity to make the wrong one at the wrong time.

Peter Lynch's Magellan Fund returned 29% per year from 1977 to 1990 - one of the greatest investment records in history. The average investor in the fund lost money. They bought after good years and sold after bad ones. The market rewarded patience. Not the investors.

The stock market returns ~10% per year over long periods. The average equity investor earns ~3-4%. Same market. Same funds. The difference is not intelligence. It is interference.