Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
RAY DALIOI notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
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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.
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There is nothing to fear from truth….Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
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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.
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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.
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Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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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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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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What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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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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I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had.
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Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.
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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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There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
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Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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I’ve learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.
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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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You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.
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A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
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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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Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.
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Treat your life like a game.
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Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
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Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
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