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Personal growth Quotes by Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio compares life to a game where obstacles block your goals and practice makes you better. He says reflecting on mistakes turns them into lessons that save you from repeating errors. He also stresses taking responsibility for what happens, because life doesn’t care about your preferences.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

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I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

“A manager’s ability to recognize when outcomes are inconsistent with goals and then modify designs and assemble people to rectify them makes all the…

“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.”

“During those terrible days after 9/11, when the whole country was being whipsawed by emotion, or the weeks between September 19 and October 10,…

“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave”

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

Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better…

“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that each one…

“Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”

“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.”