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Principles: Life and Work QUOTES

21 " I cannot say that having an intense life filled with accomplishments is better than having a relaxed life filled with savoring, though I can say that being strong is better than being weak, and that struggling gives one strength. My nature being what it is, I would not have changed my life, but I can’t tell you what is best for you. That is for you to choose. What I have seen is that the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

22 " Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. Most people make bad decisions because they are so certain that they’re right that they don’t allow themselves to see the better alternatives that exist. Radically open-minded people know that coming up with the right questions and asking other smart people what they think is as important as having all the answers. They understand that you can’t make a great decision without swimming for a while in a state of “not knowing.” That is because what exists within the area of “not knowing” is so much greater and more exciting than anything any one of us knows. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

23 " 3.2 Practice radical open-mindedness. a. Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. b. Recognize that decision making is a two-step process: First take in all the relevant information, then decide. c. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. d. Realize that you can’t put out without taking in. e. Recognize that to gain the perspective that comes from seeing things through another’s eyes, you must suspend judgment for a time—only by empathizing can you properly evaluate another point of view. 3.2 Practice radical open-mindedness. a. Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. b. Recognize that decision making is a two-step process: First take in all the relevant information, then decide. c. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. d. Realize that you can’t put out without taking in. e. Recognize that to gain the perspective that comes from seeing things through another’s eyes, you must suspend judgment for a time—only by empathizing can you properly evaluate another point of view. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

24 " Logic, reason, and common sense are your best tools for synthesizing reality and understanding what to do about it. Be wary of relying on anything else. Unfortunately, numerous tests by psychologists show that the majority of people follow the lower-level path most of the time, which leads to inferior decisions without their realizing it. As Carl Jung put it, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” It’s even more important that decision making be evidence-based and logical when groups of people are working together. If it’s not, the process will inevitably be dominated by the most powerful rather than the most insightful participants, which is not only unfair but suboptimal. Successful organizations have cultures in which evidence-based decision making is the norm rather than the exception. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

25 " As much as I love and have benefited from artificial intelligence, I believe that only people can discover such things and then program computers to do them. That's why I believe that the right people, working with each other and with computers, are the key to success. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

26 " 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 , Principles: Life and Work

27 " I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

28 " Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

29 " Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

30 " the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

31 " I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

32 " Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

33 " Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

34 " If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

35 " I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

36 " Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

37 " Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

38 " The greatest gift you can give someone is the power to be successful. Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving them the things they are struggling for will make them stronger. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

39 " It’s more important to do big things well than to do the small things perfectly. "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work

40 " Unattainable goals appeal to heroes, "

― Ray Dalio , Principles: Life and Work