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Success Quotes by Ray Dalio

54 Success quotes by Ray Dalio

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A question that digs deep can be a stronger sign of success than a quick answer. The quotes blend dreams, reality, and determination as a formula for a good life. They also stress flexibility, self‑accountability, and honest sharing of mistakes as keys to keep moving.

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“Everyone has at least one big thing that stands in the way of their success; find yours and deal with it.”

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Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

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

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“Almost nothing can stop you from succeeding if you have a) flexibility and b) self-accountability.”

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Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

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“Putting comfort ahead of success produces worse results for everyone.”

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“the satisfaction of success doesn’t come from achieving your goals, but from struggling well.”

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“Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.”

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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 attribute as much of my success to what I’ve learned about the brain as I do to my understanding of economics…

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“Clearly assign responsibilities. Eliminate any confusion about expectations and ensure that people view their failures to complete their tasks and achieve their…

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“Don’t assume that a person who has been successful elsewhere will be successful in the job you’re giving them. No”

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“Getting the right people in the right roles in support of your goal is the key to succeeding at whatever you choose…

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“Everybody has strengths and weaknesses. The key to success is understanding one’s weaknesses and successfully compensating for them. People who lack that…

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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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To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

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“I cannot say that having an intense life filled with accomplishments is better than having a relaxed life filled with savoring, though…

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“As much as I love and have benefited from artificial intelligence, I believe that only people can discover such things and then…

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“the satisfaction of success doesn’t come from achieving your goals, but from struggling well. To understand what I mean, imagine your greatest…

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“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing…

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“Learn from success as well as from failure. Radical truth doesn’t require you to be negative all the time. Point out examples…

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“Typically, by doing what comes naturally to us, we fail to account for our weaknesses, which leads us to crash. What happens…

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“Successful people are those who can go above themselves to see things objectively and manage those things to shape change. f. Asking others…

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“Ultimately, to help people succeed you have to do two things: First let them see their failures so clearly that they are…

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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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“Over the years that followed, I found that most of the extraordinarily successful people I’ve met had similar big painful failures that…

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“I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will…

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“If you’re willing to confront reality, accept the pain that comes with doing so, and follow the 5-Step Process to drive yourself…

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Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me,…

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“...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before…

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“To me, the greatest success you can have as the person in charge is to orchestrate others to do things well without…

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“Everyone fails. Anyone you see succeeding is only succeeding at the things you’re paying attention to—I guarantee they are also failing at…

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“The evolutionary process of productive adaption and ascent—the process of seeking, obtaining, and pursuing more and more ambitious goals—does not just pertain…

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“I realized that all of them—like me, like everyone—make mistakes, struggle with their weaknesses, and don’t feel that they are particularly special…

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“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing…

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I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

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“the greatest success you can have as the person in charge is to orchestrate others to do things well”

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“Getting a lot of attention for being successful is a bad position to be in.”

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“Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.”

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“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well.”

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“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.”