The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.
RAY DALIOThough 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.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
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I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
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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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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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When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
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If you have the power to see things through somebody else’s eyes, it’s like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.
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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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People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
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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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