Ray Dalio Quotes

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• I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.
• I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
• In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
• Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.
• Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of…
• Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
• Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.
• The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
• The world is still in deleveraging.
• There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
• Treat your life like a game.
• A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring,…
• Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into…
• Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't…
• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the…
• I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came…
• I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put…
• If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen…
• Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If…
• The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something…

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