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Ray Dalio

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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Change Interest Rate Structure Worry
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
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
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
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Measurement Money People Return Rough Society
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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Fall Instruction Life People Reality School Success Typical Young
I’d like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don’t hesitate to say so – which they and I cherish.
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Hesitate Myself People Tolerance
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
When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.
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Easy Hard Remember Success Thinking
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.
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Deal Difficult Disappear Face Hard Problem Yourself
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.
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Affect Beyond Lesson Nature Understand Way Work
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.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Meditation Myself Success Thinking
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
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
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
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

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