I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
RAY DALIOI also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.
RAY DALIOTo be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
RAY DALIOI’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.
RAY DALIORadical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
RAY DALIOI’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 DALIOMeditation 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 DALIOThe main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
RAY DALIOThere are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
RAY DALIOPrinciples are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
RAY DALIOIf you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.
RAY DALIOLook at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
RAY DALIOBe wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
RAY DALIOForget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
RAY DALIOIt’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
RAY DALIOThere 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 DALIOWhen you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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