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I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 8
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Hedge Fund Manager
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Raymond Thomas Dalio
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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
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Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.
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Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
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If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.
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