Sunak: The long term is just survived short terms aligned with strategy
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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak discusses parallels between long-term value investing and political governance with host Nikhil Kamath.
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“Someone put it to me well, they said that, you know, the long term is really just a succession of short terms that you either survived or were not kicked out of. And actually I realized over time there isn't, at least in politics, maybe it's more broadly in business, there's less of a kind of conflict between the short term and the long term. They're really just, They all fit into kind of a nested timeframe. And I think as long as your short-term actions need to be consistent with your long-term direction is, is what you want. It's not that you can't do things in the short term. It's just that your, you know, your weekly rhythm has to align with your one-year plan, which aligns with your three-year strategy, with your five-year vision.”
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