Personal growth Quotes by Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after…

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You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a…

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For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other…

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

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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my…

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I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for…

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Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting…

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