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I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.

Ray Dalio

I’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.
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Hesitate Myself People Tolerance
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
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Encouragement People Yourself
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
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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Competition Cost Education Factor Goodness Place Reality Word
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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Acceptance Comfortable Excellence Game Play Thrill Yourself
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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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
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Limitation Mindset Thinking Yourself
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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Change Interest Rate Structure Worry
In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I’ve wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.
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End Motivational People Relationship Share Value Work
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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Future Goodness Hide People Proper Weakness Worry
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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Myself People Reaction Right Thinking
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
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Complication Economy Move
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.
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Forget Motivational Technology Understand
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it’s a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
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Demand Measurement Mistake Myself Quantity Tradition
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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Carry Day Flow Meditation Myself

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