It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
RAY DALIOMost people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
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The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
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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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I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws.
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Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.
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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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There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
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I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.
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School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
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Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
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To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.
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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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That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
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