Play long-term games with long-term people.

The popular wording appears on nav.al/rich only as the heading ‘Play Long-Term Games With Long-Term People’ and, near the end, in Naval’s ‘pick an industry in which you can play long-term games with long-term people’. The tweet Nivi reads is the longer sentence. The earliest dated use was not traced (X is closed to our researcher).

Nivi asks which industries to work in and with whom, and reads the tweet. Naval explains that all the benefits in life come from compound interest, in relationships as in money, and that long-term games also build trust: tit-for-tat works only when the game is repeated.

Choose work and partners where reputation and trust compound over many years, because that is where returns come from.

The page carries the short form ‘Play long-term games with long-term people’ only as a section heading; the sentence Nivi reads is longer (‘pick an industry where…’). The tweet itself was not seen.

Time, Wisdom

• Escape competition through authenticity.
• Earn with your mind, not your time.
• Be the change you wish to see in the world. (misattributed) Mahatma Gandhi
• Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
• And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs

• nav.al/rich

“Play long-term games with long-term people.” Attributed to Naval Ravikant. Not in these words. The idea is in How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (2018), “Play Long-Term Games With Long-Term People”, nav.al/rich (Nivi reading the tweet), said by Nivi. Quotogeny, https://quotogeny.com/q/play-long-term-games-with-long-term-people/ (checked 25 October 2026).

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