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It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

Ray Dalio

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
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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Big Life Meditation Myself Success
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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Bad Goodness Hide Place Radiant Reason
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
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
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.
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Flow Future Interest Investment Pay Rate
Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Calm Challenge Emotion Help Meditation Stay Yourself
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Life Live Principle Value Yourself
To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
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Best Decision Independent Need Success Thinking
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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Advice Himself Live Place
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.
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Beyond Experience Form Negative People
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
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Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.
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Believe Government Happiness Help Money Myself People
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
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself

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