Ray Dalio Quotes

• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Win, Baseball

• If it didn’t happen in your life before, then you’re not paying attention you don’t think it’s possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Happen, Before

• If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Interest, Likely

• I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Understand, Economic

• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Happy, Believe

• I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful – it depends on how they’re managed.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Another, Worry

• I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learned, Heard

• I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Hold, Asset

• I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Short, Against

• I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Law, Away

• I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Difference, Notice

• I don’t get caught up in the moment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Caught

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Tired, Come

• 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

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Believe, Ego

• He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lives, Eat, Ball

• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Best, Economics

• Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you’ll create credit… So you reach a certain point that that you can’t do that anymore… There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Best, Point

• Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Encouragement

  Tags in Constantly, Probe

• An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Moving, Parts

• Almost everything is like a machine.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Almost, Machine

Ray Dalio (41)

Birth:	1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Financier, Founder

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