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.
RAY DALIOSuccessful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
More Ray Dalio Quotes
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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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Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.
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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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There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.
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People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.
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Almost everything is like a machine.
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Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
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Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
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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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Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
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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.
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