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When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 8
Businessman
Hedge Fund Manager
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Jackson Heights
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Raymond Dalio
Raymond Thomas Dalio
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Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.
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What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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You'll see that excuses like That's not easy are of no value and that it pays to push through it at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.
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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.
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To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.
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There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
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Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
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People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).
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The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.
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The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
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If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.
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If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
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Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
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There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.
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I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will be better or the portrayal will be better, or at least recognize that whenever you're looking at something, you're seeing it through somebody's eyes who may actually not be the person who is the most insightful.
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I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, I don't know what to believe. There are no checks and balances in quality control.
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