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More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.

Ray Dalio

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
I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
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Achievement Believe Choice Difficult
Though how nature works is way beyond man’s ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
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Affect Beyond Lesson Nature Understand Way Work
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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Advice Himself Live Place
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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Believe Reading Trust Yourself
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
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Believe Best Evidence Finding Interest Share Truth Way
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
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Class Drive Growth Main Return
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
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
People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
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Future Goodness Hide People Proper Weakness Worry
If you have the power to see things through somebody else’s eyes, it’s like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.
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Black Dimension Eyes Power White Yourself
If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.
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Economics History Yourself
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
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.
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Live Object People Potential Willing

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.

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More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.

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