I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.
RAY DALIOTreat your life like a game.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
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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.
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The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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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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Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
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An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
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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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Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
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Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.
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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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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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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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