For investing in cryptocurrencies. Patience is indeed very important. I feel that the premise here is that the project you choose must have potential. It's worth your patience. Otherwise it won't be worth your time. 
The point of patience here is to hold back your appetite to sell or buy. often many people who can not control when looking at the price. many do not have a basic analysis so they only look at the price point of view without taking everything into account through analysis. This is what makes the benefits often not maximum and they complain a lot