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Ray Dalio

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 quantity of goods.
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Demand Measurement Mistake Myself Quantity Tradition
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
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Device Limitation Nature Ourselves Pain Way
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 what the society wanted.
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Money People Production Society Warning
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
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.
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Beautiful Growth Positive Slow Speed Time
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.
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Deal Difficult Disappear Face Hard Problem Yourself
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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Decision Organization Work
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 out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
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Help Myself Observation Reason Writing Wrong
By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
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Connection Deserve Life Responsibility Yourself
Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.
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Bad Easy Oneself Opinion Production Right Situation Value Worst
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 market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
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Gold Market Money Opportunity Price Way
The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!
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Advice Believe Best Life True Yourself
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.
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Believe Big Humanity Myself Problem Strength Weakness Wrong
In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I’ve wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.
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End Motivational People Relationship Share Value Work

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