I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who… — Ray Dalio 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 Copy Share Image
Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Slow down your thinking so you can note the criteria you are using to make your decision. 2. Write the criteria down as a principle.… — Ray Dalio 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 Copy Share Image
“If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done” — Ray Dalio 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 well, I… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“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… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“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,… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
