People Quotes by Ray Dalio

“Great people are hard to find so make sure you think about how to keep them.”

— Ray Dalio

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

— Ray Dalio

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

— Ray Dalio

“Don’t build the organization to fit the people.”

— Ray Dalio

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

— Ray Dalio

What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.

— Ray Dalio

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable…

— Ray Dalio

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and…

— Ray Dalio

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

— Ray Dalio

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to…

— Ray Dalio

Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of…

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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…

— 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

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

— Ray Dalio

I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as…

— Ray Dalio

Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had…

— Ray Dalio

Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering…

— Ray Dalio

People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to…

— Ray Dalio

Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely…

— Ray Dalio

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You…

— Ray Dalio

So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of…

— Ray Dalio

So I learned that the people who make the most of the process of encountering reality, especially the painful obstacles, learn the…

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The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great…

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This is my year of transition from what I'm calling the second phase of my life to the third phase of my…

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The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as…

— 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

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

— Ray Dalio

Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little…

— Ray Dalio

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around…

— Ray Dalio

Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.

— Ray Dalio

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility.…

— Ray Dalio

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse…

— Ray Dalio

Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face.…

— Ray Dalio