Quotes of Ray Dalio - somelinesforyou

“ Pain plus reflection equals progress. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ If you don’t look back at yourself and think, “Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,” then you must not have learned much in the last year. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Remember this: the pain is all in your head. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Remember that the only purpose of money is to get you what you want, so think hard about what you value and put it above money. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ For me, the best things in life — meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures — are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ How much would you sell a good relationship for? There’s not enough money in the world to get you to part with a valued relationship. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Remember that in great partnerships, consideration and generosity are more important than money. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Look 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 Dalio

“ 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. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ I can’t comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn’t a lot better than having enough to cover the basics. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ 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 want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Audacity gets you to shoot for big goals and humility gives you the open-mindedness to take in the best thinking available to you to get you to those goals. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ If you don’t look back on yourself and think, “Wow how stupid I was a year ago,” then you must not have learned much in the last year. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ If your objective is to be as good as you can be, then you’re going to want criticism. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Evolve or die. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Failure is a teacher. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Learning is the product of a continuous real-time feedback loop in which we make decisions, see their outcomes, and improve our understanding of reality as a result. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Failure is a teacher. ”

- Ray Dalio

“ Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination. ”

- Ray Dalio
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