“Get rid of irrelevant details so that the essential things and the relationships between them stand out.” — Ray Dalio Relationship Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to find solutions yet. Your focus in this step is strictly on listing the problems.” — Ray Dalio Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning.” — Ray Dalio Intelligence Copy Share Image
“1+1=3. Two people who collaborate well will be about three times as effective as each of them operating independently,” — Ray Dalio Collaborate Copy Share Image
“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave” — Ray Dalio Child Copy Share Image
“The two biggest barriers to good decision making are your ego and your blind spots.” — Ray Dalio Barriers Copy Share Image
“a. Get over “blame” and “credit” and get on with “accurate” and “inaccurate.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. — Ray Dalio Country Copy Share Image
“Thinking about problems that are difficult to solve may make you anxious, but not thinking about them (and hence not dealing with… — Ray Dalio Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down, especially if you are working with… — Ray Dalio Working with others Copy Share Image
“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will… — Ray Dalio Habit Copy Share Image
“people who have common sense, imagination, and determination, who know what they value and what they want, and who also use computers,… — Ray Dalio Common sense Copy Share Image
“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential” — Ray Dalio Failing Copy Share Image
“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.” — Ray Dalio Problem solving Copy Share Image
“Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can… — Ray Dalio Habits Copy Share Image
“Even experts can make mistakes; my point is simply that it pays to be radically open-minded and triangulate with smart people.” — Ray Dalio Failure Copy Share Image
“I urge you to be curious enough to want to understand how the people who see things differently from you came to… — Ray Dalio Curious Copy Share Image
“It’ll be decades—and maybe never—before the computer can replicate many of the things that the brain can do in terms of imagination,… — Ray Dalio Computers Copy Share Image
Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting… — Ray Dalio Evolve Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Developmental Copy Share Image
“understand that to be truly successful I need to be like a conductor of people, many of whom (if not all) can… — Ray Dalio Beauty Copy Share Image
“When encountering your weaknesses you have four choices: 1. You can deny them (which is what most people do). 2. You can accept them… — Ray Dalio Ability to change Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads -… — Ray Dalio Arise Copy Share Image
“While it’s easier to avoid confrontations in the short run, the consequences of doing so can be massively destructive in the long… — Ray Dalio Long term Copy Share Image
“You are expected to go to the higher level and look down on yourself and others as part of a system. In… — Ray Dalio Point of view 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 Decision making Copy Share Image
The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great… — Ray Dalio Caring Copy Share Image
“Learning how to make decisions in the best possible way and learning to have the courage to make them comes from a)… — Ray Dalio Capable Copy Share Image
“People’s personalities are pretty well formed before they come to you, and they’ve been leaving their fingerprints all over the place since… — Ray Dalio Children Copy Share Image
“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that… — Ray Dalio Nature Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest success you can have as the person in charge is to orchestrate others to do things well without… — Ray Dalio Doing things Copy Share Image