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When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.

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Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
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Bad Better Essential Expectation Feeling Learning Mistake Process
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
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
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Country Current Decline Interest Rate
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
Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
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Factor Meditation Myself Reason Success
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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Business Humble Independent Marketing Money Thinking 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
Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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People Seek Understand
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
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.
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Delicious Hope Life Rejection Taste Yourself
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
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Embarrass People Thinking
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand

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