Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you. — Ray Dalio Encourage Copy Share Image
“Understand that a great manager is essentially an organizational engineer.” — Ray Dalio Engineer Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know. — Ray Dalio Embarrassing Copy Share Image
“Remember that weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions.” — Ray Dalio Problem solving Copy Share Image
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization. — Ray Dalio Decide Copy Share Image
“they must be able to put their egos aside and assess themselves candidly.” — Ray Dalio Egos Copy Share Image
“Almost nothing can stop you from succeeding if you have a) flexibility and b) self-accountability.” — Ray Dalio Succeeding Copy Share Image
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had. — Ray Dalio Ingredients Copy Share Image
“Some decisions are best made after acquiring more information; some are best made immediately.” — Ray Dalio Data Copy Share Image
“rushing into ad hoc solutions while kicking the proverbial can down the road is a “path to slaughter.” — Ray Dalio Hell Copy Share Image
“Everyone has at least one big thing that stands in the way of their success; find yours and deal with it.” — Ray Dalio Success Copy Share Image
“You must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true.” — Ray Dalio Important Copy Share Image
“If I can reconcile my emotions with my logic and only act when they are aligned, I make better decisions.” — Ray Dalio Decision making Copy Share Image
“I attribute as much of my success to what I’ve learned about the brain as I do to my understanding of economics… — Ray Dalio Brain Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind both the rates of change and the levels of things, and the relationships between them. When determining an acceptable… — Ray Dalio Change Copy Share Image
“Typically, by doing what comes naturally to us, we fail to account for our weaknesses, which leads us to crash. What happens… — Ray Dalio Failure Copy Share Image
“there are far fewer types of people in the world than there are people and far fewer different types of situations than… — Ray Dalio Different types Copy Share Image
In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value… — Ray Dalio Building Copy Share Image
“In thinking about the relative importance of great relationships and money, it was clear that relationships were more important because there is… — Ray Dalio Great relationship 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 Average Copy Share Image
“Learn from success as well as from failure. Radical truth doesn’t require you to be negative all the time. Point out examples… — Ray Dalio Failure Copy Share Image
I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws,… — Ray Dalio Believe Copy Share Image
“A culture and its people are symbiotic—the culture attracts certain kinds of people and the people in turn either reinforce or evolve… — Ray Dalio Culture Copy Share Image
“However, rather than blindly following the computer’s recommendations, I would have the computer work in parallel with my own analysis and then… — Ray Dalio Computers 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 Believe Copy Share Image
“Meditate. I practice Transcendental Meditation and believe that it has enhanced my open-mindedness, higher-level perspective, equanimity, and creativity. It helps slow things… — Ray Dalio Transcendental meditation Copy Share Image
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to… — Ray Dalio Biology Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all principal… — Ray Dalio Customer 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 Bigs 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 Cases Copy Share Image
“being strong is better than being weak, and that struggling gives one strength.” — Ray Dalio Strength Copy Share Image
“Think like an owner, and expect the people you work with to do the same.” — Ray Dalio Owner Copy Share Image
“Having everyone randomly probe everyone else is an unproductive waste of time.” — Ray Dalio Time Copy Share Image
“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.” — Ray Dalio History Copy Share Image