Not necessarily patience, but this may be the most important factor when the cryptocurrency market is in a downturn, but there is no way to replicate it. Wisdom, savvy, and experience are also very important. And luck is also very important when the market is down.
You are just contradicting yourself. Even you will be having wisdom and experience, when you are not patience enough you may quit the markets earlier, it is also another kind of losses because you will be missing out a big chances of making good profits. Being patience might be having different scenarios for different cases but overall you need to be patient enough when the market is not doing well. You must wait for the tide to be turning in your favor.
Everyone knows that a little patience would fetch them a lot of money
This is the case of most of long-term bitcoin holder. They were not becoming greedy nor not getting panic when the positive and negative markets were happening time to time. They just decided to be patience and waiting for the right time to book their maximum benefits. It is a proven fact that holders alone making the maximum benefits compared to active traders.