“People who do this fail because they are stubbornly stuck in their own heads.” — Ray Dalio Failure Copy Share Image
“there is an overabundance of confidently expressed bad opinions.” — Ray Dalio Opinions Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about looking good—worry instead about achieving your goals.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“The Lessons of History, a 104-page distillation of the major forces through history by Will and Ariel Durant,” — Ray Dalio History Copy Share Image
“Recognize that having an effective idea meritocracy requires that you understand the merit of each person’s ideas.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Great cultures bring problems and disagreements to the surface and solve them well, and they love imagining and building great things that… — Ray Dalio Culture Copy Share Image
“Learn how much confidence to have in your people—don’t assume it. No manager should delegate responsibilities to people they don’t know well.” — Ray Dalio Confidence Copy Share Image
“Don’t let fears of what others think of you stand in your way. You must be willing to do things in the… — Ray Dalio Fear Copy Share Image
“I read Charles Duhigg’s best-selling book The Power of Habit, which really opened my eyes.” — Ray Dalio Books Copy Share Image
“I recommend Richard Dawkins’s and E. O. Wilson’s books on evolution. If I had to pick just one, it would be Dawkins’s… — Ray Dalio Biology Copy Share Image
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to… — 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… — Ray Dalio Goals Copy Share Image
“Jeff Bezos described it well when he said, “You have to have a willingness to repeatedly fail. If you don’t have a… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Keeping people in jobs they are not suited for is terrible for them because it allows them to live in a false… — Ray Dalio False reality Copy Share Image
“I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want.… — Ray Dalio Aging Copy Share Image
“The most meaningful relationships are achieved when you and others can speak openly to each other about everything that’s important, learn together,… — Ray Dalio Meaningful Copy Share Image
“In trading you have to be defensive and aggressive at the same time. If you are not aggressive, you are not going… — Ray Dalio Customer Copy Share Image
When you're faced with a choice, you have one of three choices that you can have. You can have those with power… — Ray Dalio Believability Copy Share Image
Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me,… — Ray Dalio Emotional Copy Share Image
I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you two things: equanimity and creativity. And it does that by taking one from their conscious mind, where there's all… — Ray Dalio Chaos Copy Share Image
“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that… — Ray Dalio Nature Copy Share Image
“A community in which you always have the right and obligation to make sense of things and a process for working yourselves… — Ray Dalio Community Copy Share Image
“As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia—hundreds of billions… — Ray Dalio Books Copy Share Image
“...human greatness and terribleness are not correlated with wealth or other conventional measures of success. I've also learned that judging people before… — Ray Dalio Judging people Copy Share Image
“Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine. One of the hardest things… — Ray Dalio Computers Copy Share Image
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Power should lie in the reasoning, not the position, of the individual.” — Ray Dalio Power Copy Share Image
“There were only two big forces to worry about: growth and inflation.” — Ray Dalio Customer Copy Share Image
“One of the most important decisions you can make is who you ask questions of. Make” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image