Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Understand that a great manager is essentially an organizational engineer.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Remember that weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions.” — Ray Dalio Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Think like an owner, and expect the people you work with to do the same.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“You must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“future. That led me to make a thirty-minute video, How the Economic Machine Works, which I released in 2013.” — Ray Dalio Economics Copy Share Image
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Experience taught me how invaluable it is to reflect on and write down my decision-making criteria whenever I made a decision, so… — Ray Dalio Decision making Copy Share Image
“Almost nothing can stop you from succeeding if you have a) flexibility and b) self-accountability.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Know that most everyone thinks that what they did, and what they are doing, is much more important than it really is.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Some decisions you should make yourself and some you should delegate to someone more believable.” — Ray Dalio Decision making Copy Share Image
“Use “double-do” rather than “double-check” to make sure mission-critical tasks are done correctly. Double-checking has a much higher rate of errors than… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Successful people are those who can go above themselves to see things objectively and manage those things to shape change. f. Asking others… — Ray Dalio Skill Copy Share Image
“Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure (which Campbell calls an “abyss” or the “belly of the whale” experience) that… — Ray Dalio Hero Copy Share Image
“Organisms, organizations, and individual people are always highly imperfect but capable of improving. So rather than getting stuck hiding our mistakes and… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Distortion Copy Share Image
“Meditate. I practice Transcendental Meditation and believe that it has enhanced my open-mindedness, higher-level perspective, equanimity, and creativity. It helps slow things… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Remember that believable opinions are most likely to come from people 1) who have successfully accomplished the thing in question at least… — Ray Dalio Opinions Copy Share Image
Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I'm sure Donald Trump will think that he has the truth, and some journalist is arguing that he has truth, and somebody… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to… — Ray Dalio Biology Copy Share Image
“If you choose the right people with the right values and remain in sync with them, you will play beautiful jazz together.… — Ray Dalio Next chapter Copy Share Image
“being strong is better than being weak, and that struggling gives one strength.” — Ray Dalio Strength Copy Share Image
“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.” — Ray Dalio History Copy Share Image
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Having everyone randomly probe everyone else is an unproductive waste of time.” — Ray Dalio Time Copy Share Image
