Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. — 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
Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as… — 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
The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is… — 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
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of… — 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
