Ray Dalio

“risk parity” investing.”

— Ray Dalio

“Evaluate accurately, not kindly.”

— Ray Dalio

“the narcissism of small differences.”

— Ray Dalio

“Use evidence-based decision-making tools.”

— Ray Dalio

“Know when not to have an opinion.”

— Ray Dalio

“Go back before you go forward.”

— Ray Dalio

I don't get caught up in the moment.

— Ray Dalio

“Systemize your decision making.”

— Ray Dalio

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

— Ray Dalio

“detail anxiety,” worrying about unimportant things.”

— Ray Dalio

“River Out of Eden by the insightful Richard Dawkins,”

— Ray Dalio

“Recognize that you don’t need to make judgments about everything”

— Ray Dalio

“Focus more on making the pie bigger than on exactly how to slice it”

— Ray Dalio

“Humility is as important, or even more important, as having the strengths yourself.”

— Ray Dalio

“in order to treat people appropriately you must treat them differently.”

— Ray Dalio

“Remember to reflect when you experience pain.”

— Ray Dalio

“Know that most everyone thinks that what they did, and what they are doing, is much more important than it really is.”

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

“It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one’s limits, which is painful.”

— Ray Dalio

“Some decisions you should make yourself and some you should delegate to someone more believable.”

— Ray Dalio

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

— Ray Dalio

“those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the”

— Ray Dalio

“Don’t let the little things divide you when your agreement on the big things should bind you.”

— Ray Dalio

“The more open- minded you are, the less likely you are to deceive yourself— and the more likely it is that others…

— Ray Dalio

“He rated Angela Merkel as the best leader in the West and considered Vladimir Putin one of the best leaders worldwide. He…

— Ray Dalio

“Watching the same things happen again and again, I began to see reality as a gorgeous perpetual motion machine, in which causes…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

“Most people have a tough time reflecting when they are in pain and they pay attention to other things when the pain…

— Ray Dalio

“Make sure those who are given radical transparency recognize their responsibilities to handle it well and to weigh things intelligently. People cannot…

— Ray Dalio

“Open-minded people genuinely believe they could be wrong; the questions that they ask are genuine. They also assess their relative believability to…

— Ray Dalio

“wise people stick with sound fundamentals through the ups and downs, while flighty people react emotionally to how things feel, jumping into…

— Ray Dalio

I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as…

— Ray Dalio

This is my year of transition from what I'm calling the second phase of my life to the third phase of my…

— Ray Dalio

“If something went badly, you had to put it in the log, characterize its severity, and make clear who was responsible for…

— Ray Dalio

“Just before Thanksgiving, I met with Bunker Hunt, then the richest man in the world, at the Petroleum Club in Dallas. Bud…

— Ray Dalio

The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

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

— Ray Dalio

“Assess believability by systematically capturing people’s track records over time. Every day is not a new day. Over time, a body of…

— Ray Dalio

“Don’t expect people to recognize and compensate for their own blind spots. I constantly see people form wrong opinions and make bad…

— Ray Dalio