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Playing to win later, even if you look like you're losing now.
means A strategy focused on long-term goals, where short-term setbacks or losses are accepted as part of the path to eventual success.
from Pulled from games of patience and strategy—cards, chess, pool—where 'the long game' meant setting up a position whose payoff wouldn't arrive for many moves yet. The phrase moved into general use in the 20th century, especially in politics and sport, to describe anyone willing to sacrifice quick wins for a slower, surer victory.
- timeframe
- years, not quarters
- risk
- looks like inaction to impatient people
- opposite
- the quarterly earnings call
- payoff
- compounds quietly until it suddenly doesn't