“Your part in an employee’s personal evolution begins with a frank assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, followed by a plan for… — Ray Dalio Personal evolution Copy Share Image
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“I myself find the excitement, lower risk, and educational value of achieving a deep understanding of cause-effect relationships much more appealing than… — Ray Dalio Deep understanding Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought that parents and schools overemphasize the value of having the right answers all the time. It seems to me… — Ray Dalio Education Copy Share Image
“We work with others to get three things: 1) Leverage to accomplish our chosen missions in bigger and better ways than we… — Ray Dalio Better way Copy Share Image
“if you come up with something the world values, you almost can’t help but be rewarded. Conversely, reality tends to penalize those… — Ray Dalio Biology Copy Share Image
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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 there's… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“you must identify whether they have demonstrated themselves to be extraordinary in some way. The most obvious demonstration is outstanding performance within… — Ray Dalio Demonstrated Copy Share Image
“When you get down to it, our brains are essentially computers that are programmed in certain ways, take in data, and spit… — Ray Dalio Brain Copy Share Image
“Once I understood that it’s all physiological, many things became clearer to me. While I used to get angry and frustrated at… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“People who are one way on the inside and another way on the outside become conflicted and often lose touch with their… — Ray Dalio Conflicted Copy Share Image
“If you want to have a community of people who have both high-quality, long-term relationships and a high sense of personal responsibility,… — Ray Dalio Community Copy Share Image
When I say I believe in radical truth and radical transparency, all I mean is we take things that ordinarily people would… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“If you can be open with your weaknesses it will make you freer and will help you deal with them better. I… — Ray Dalio Weaknesses Copy Share Image
“The best behaviors one can hope for come from leaders who can weigh the benefits of cooperation, and who have long enough… — Ray Dalio Cooperation Copy Share Image
“there are some universal rules for good decision making. They start with: 5.1 Recognize that 1) the biggest threat to good decision making… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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“Asking others who are strong in areas where you are weak to help you is a great skill that you should develop… — Ray Dalio Skill Copy Share Image
“I believe that great cultures, like great people, recognize that making mistakes is part of the process of learning, and that continuous… — Ray Dalio Continuous learning Copy Share Image
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For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Whatever circumstances life brings you, you will be more likely to succeed and find happiness if you take responsibility for making your… — Ray Dalio Decision making Copy Share Image
“People with proven track records in a certain area would get more believability, or decision-making weight, within that area. By recording these… — Ray Dalio Baseball Copy Share Image
“Using principles is a way of both simplifying and improving your decision making. While it might seem obvious to you by now,… — Ray Dalio Decision making Copy Share Image
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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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… — Ray Dalio Failure Copy Share Image
“Remember that most people are happiest when they are improving and doing the things that suit them naturally and help them advance.… — Ray Dalio Strength Copy Share Image
“Be imprecise. Understand the concept of “by-and-large” and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of… — Ray Dalio Conceptual thinking Copy Share Image
“While I used to get angry and frustrated at people because of the choices they made, I came to realize that they… — Ray Dalio Angry And Frustrated Copy Share Image
“people who have common sense, imagination, and determination, who know what they value and what they want, and who also use computers,… — Ray Dalio Common sense Copy Share Image
“Don’t do work for people in another department or grab people from another department to do work for you unless you speak… — Ray Dalio Leader Copy Share Image
“It is important to determine whether the root cause of a particular problem (“Harry was careless”) is part of a larger pattern… — Ray Dalio Root cause Copy Share Image
Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and… — Ray Dalio Facts Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift you can give someone is the power to be successful. Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving… — Ray Dalio Gift Copy Share Image
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