262 Quotes by Ray Dalio

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.

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.

Don’t hire people just to fit the first job they will do; hire people you want to share your life with.

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.

Most people assume that the challenges that go along with growing a large business are greater than those of growing a smaller one. That is not true. Going from a five-person organization to a sixty-person organization was just as challenging as going from a sixty-person organization to a seven-hundred-person organization – and from a seven-hundred-person organization to a 1,500-person one.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.

Watch out for people who confuse goals and tasks, because if they can’t make that distinction, you can’t trust them with responsibilities.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

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