black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.

Ray Dalio

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
RAY DALIO

Acceptance Bad Eyes See Strong
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
RAY DALIO

Complication Economy Move
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.
RAY DALIO

Gold Market Money Opportunity Price Way
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 DALIO

Calm Challenge Emotion Help Meditation Stay Yourself
Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them – i.e., reflecting – if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
RAY DALIO

Development Leadership Learning Pain Problem Solution Way Yourself
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.
RAY DALIO

Easy Hard Remember Success Thinking
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
RAY DALIO

Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
RAY DALIO

Myself People Reaction Right Thinking
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
RAY DALIO

Class Drive Growth Main Return
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.
RAY DALIO

Carry Day Flow Meditation Myself
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
RAY DALIO

Change Interest Rate Structure Worry
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.
RAY DALIO

Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
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
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!
RAY DALIO

Advice Believe Best Life True Yourself
Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.
RAY DALIO

Believe Reading Trust Yourself
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.
RAY DALIO

Achievement Creation Ideal Problem Progress Reality Success True Understand

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ray Dalio Quotes