black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Ray Dalio

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.
RAY DALIO

Measurement Money People Return Rough Society
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
RAY DALIO

Big Life Meditation Myself Success
There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
RAY DALIO

Control Drive Inspirational Yourself
Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.
RAY DALIO

Embarrass People Thinking
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
RAY DALIO

Complication Economy Move
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.
RAY DALIO

Hesitate Myself People Tolerance
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.
RAY DALIO

Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
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.
RAY DALIO

Believe Consist Karma Law Myself Nature Punishment Reward Success
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.
RAY DALIO

Flow Future Interest Investment Pay Rate
People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
RAY DALIO

Choice Confusion Creation Impossible People True
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.
RAY DALIO

Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
RAY DALIO

Acceptance Myself Radiant Truth
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.
RAY DALIO

Beautiful Growth Positive Slow Speed Time
To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
RAY DALIO

Best Decision Independent Need Success Thinking
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
RAY DALIO

Believe Reading Trust Yourself
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.
RAY DALIO

Live Object People Potential Willing

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ray Dalio Quotes