8 Quotes & Sayings By Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, with approximately $150 billion in assets under management. He is also the founder, through his Think Tank Foundation, of the world's largest collection of applied social science research. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in business and economics for his pioneering work in behavioral finance, Bridgewater's unique value investing approach, and for his theories about how to effectively manage complex organizations.

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Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. Ray Dalio
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The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable). Ray Dalio
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. Ray Dalio
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There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. Ray Dalio
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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
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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 Dalio
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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