Ray Dalio

“Unattainable goals appeal to heroes,”

— Ray Dalio

The economy is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio

“THINKING PRINCIPLES ALGORITHMS”

— Ray Dalio

“Go to the pain rather than avoid it.”

— Ray Dalio

“Avoid fixating on irrelevant details.”

— Ray Dalio

“Embrace Reality and Deal with It”

— Ray Dalio

“Everything is a case study.”

— Ray Dalio

“Know when not to have an opinion.”

— Ray Dalio

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect system.

— Ray Dalio

“I saw pain as nature’s reminder that there is something important for me to learn.”

— Ray Dalio

“Reality is optimizing for the whole—not for you.”

— Ray Dalio

“I also feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure.”

— Ray Dalio

“It takes a genius to make it simple.” Think of Picasso. He”

— Ray Dalio

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

— Ray Dalio

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

— Ray Dalio

“the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”

— Ray Dalio

“Don’t have anything to do with closed-minded people. Being open-minded is much more important than being bright or smart.”

— Ray Dalio

“If a number of different believable people say you are doing something wrong and you are the only one who doesn’t see…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which…

— Ray Dalio

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

— Ray Dalio

“for my family relative to how much should go to people and causes that are more distant, yet more desperately in”

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

“Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones.”

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to…

— Ray Dalio

“Organisms, organizations, and individual people are always highly imperfect but capable of improving. So rather than getting stuck hiding our mistakes and…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

“Because we are capable of conscious, memory-based learning, we can evolve further and faster than any other species, changing not just across…

— Ray Dalio

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong…

— Ray Dalio

I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process…

— Ray Dalio

“In thinking about the relative importance of great relationships and money, it was clear that relationships were more important because there is…

— Ray Dalio

“Much as I loved the job and the people I worked with, I didn’t fit into the Shearson organization. I was too…

— Ray Dalio

“To me, the greatest success you can have as the person in charge is to orchestrate others to do things well without…

— Ray Dalio

“if everyone understood the basics, then economic policymakers would be able to do the right things a lot faster and with less…

— Ray Dalio

“Everyone fails. Anyone you see succeeding is only succeeding at the things you’re paying attention to—I guarantee they are also failing at…

— Ray Dalio

“I realized that all of them—like me, like everyone—make mistakes, struggle with their weaknesses, and don’t feel that they are particularly special…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio