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Investing Quotes by Ray Dalio

69 Investing quotes by Ray Dalio

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Life is like a game where you seek to overcome obstacles, and Dalio frames investing as practice. He stresses taking responsibility, learning from mistakes, and understanding how the world works. The advice blends economics with psychology to help you grow.

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“risk parity” investing.”

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There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

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To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

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Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

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The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

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Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

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Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

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People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible…

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More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look…

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I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to…

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When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is…

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Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons…

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When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

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I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal…

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I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who…

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I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws,…

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Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior…

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Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing…

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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is…

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I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their…

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The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is…

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People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also…

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The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and…

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People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.…

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“Investors think independently, anticipate things that haven’t happened yet, and put real money at stake with their bets. Policymakers come from environments…

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I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money…

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“Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history…

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Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal…

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“Making money in the markets is tough. The brilliant trader and investor Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you…

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I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what…

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Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions.…

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“I attribute as much of my success to what I’ve learned about the brain as I do to my understanding of economics…

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There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to…

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To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a…

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Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject…

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There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

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It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future…

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I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I…

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Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

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What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that…

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“Slow down your thinking so you can note the criteria you are using to make your decision. 2. Write the criteria down as a principle.…

“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

“If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done”

“Remember that a good plan should resemble a movie script.”

“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I…

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

“A manager’s ability to recognize when outcomes are inconsistent with goals and then modify designs and assemble people to rectify them makes all the…

“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.”

“During those terrible days after 9/11, when the whole country was being whipsawed by emotion, or the weeks between September 19 and October 10,…

“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave”

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future…

Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better…

“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that each one…

“Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”

“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.”