“I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.” LifeBelieveMatterChoicesI BelieveDifficultGrowthAchievePersonal GrowthInvestingRight ChoicesAchieving SuccessPersonal Choice Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.” WorldWayLifeBelieveHelpingI BelieveUnderstandingGrowthHarmonyPersonal GrowthInvestingEvolve Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that's consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn't and can't make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants.” MenWayWantLifeBelieveUseDreamLawUniverseGivenI BelieveGrowthNumbersPrinciplesProgressHarmonyInfinitePersonal GrowthInvestingConsistent Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.” KnowsLifeBelieveRealFactsProblemSchoolFormI BelieveGoalGrowthMistakeAchieveFiguresTaughtSmartPersonal GrowthInvestingCriticalMaking MistakesOur SocietyFedsEmbarrassingTestedLearning From MistakesEducation SystemElementary SchoolPhobia Author:Ray Dalio
“When I say I believe in radical truth and radical transparency, all I mean is we take things that ordinarily people would hide, and we put them on the table, particularly mistakes, problems, and weaknesses. We put those on the table, and we look at them together. We don't hide them.” PeopleBelieveLooksMeanProblemTogetherI BelieveMistakeWeaknessTablesI Believe InRadicalTransparency Author: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.” BelieveProblemFacesHumanityI BelieveEgoFindingsWeaknessSensitivityIdentifyingStrength And Weakness Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right” WayLifeBelieveI BelieveInterestViewsShareTruth IsFindingsPersonal GrowthInvestingBest WayProvenReflectingOpposingFinding Out The TruthOpposing Views Author:Ray Dalio
“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!” IfsWantLifeGivingShouldBelieveI CanDoneMovingAsksI BelieveAdvicePersonal GrowthInvestingWhat You WantFasterBest Advice Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws.” LifeBelieveLawI BelieveFailingSucceedConflictDegreesHarmonyPersonal GrowthInvestingConsistently Author:Ray Dalio
“I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.” BelieveWould BeLawDesireUniverseI BelieveNiceImagineAchieveAppreciateDreamerBeing NiceImplications Author:Ray Dalio
“I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.” PeopleIfsGivingBelieveHelpingGovernmentTogetherUsedI BelieveHalfProgramCharity Author:Ray Dalio
