V. S. Naipaul Quote

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.

A Bend in the River (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2012) - ISBN: 9780330516358