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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

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
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Creation Media Perception Power True
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
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
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
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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Believe Reading Trust Yourself
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
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Complication Economy Move
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
The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!
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Advice Believe Best Life True Yourself
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
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Difference Meditation Moments Myself Notice
Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.
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Acceptance Comfortable Excellence Game Play Thrill Yourself
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
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
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
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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Creation People Photograph Team Trust
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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Advice Himself Live Place

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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