“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.”

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.

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.

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.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.

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.

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.

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.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

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.

I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.

I fall in love every time. And I don’t really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

I don’t jump to conclusions I gracefully fall to them.

Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I’m a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It’s how you pick yourself up that’s the real challenge. Isn’t it?