Ray Dalio on Execution Quotes

"Remember that in great partnerships, consideration and generosity are more important than money for execution."

"Look for people who have lots of great questions. They are the ones who will help you execute better."

"Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. Real execution requires humility and focus."

"Don’t let yourself be a victim of your circumstances. Take responsibility for your execution."

"You have to be a seeker of truth to be a master of execution."

"Great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives flavor."

"The most important thing you can do is to be a seeker of truth. Truth enables better execution."

"Pain + Reflection = Progress. Execution involves hitting walls and learning how to get over them."

"Radical transparency is the best way to ensure that people are doing what they are supposed to do."

"Don’t mistake possibilities for probabilities. Accurate assessment is required for effective execution."

"Man’s most distinctive quality is our ability to objectively look at our own execution and improve it."

"Push through to completion. You can have the best plan in the world, but if you don't execute, you have nothing."

"To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what's true."

"Weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions. Execution is about finding workarounds for your own limitations."

"Design your machine to achieve your goals. Execution is the process of operating that machine effectively."

"Success is a result of finding the right way to do things and then having the discipline to do them."

"Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get what you want out of life."

"Identify and don’t tolerate problems. If you tolerate them, you cannot execute on your vision."

"Doing is what makes the results happen. Design without doing is just a dream."

"Be a hyperrealist. Accepting reality is the first step toward executing a plan to change it."

"Create a culture in which it is okay to make mistakes and unacceptable not to learn from them."

"The quality of your life depends on the quality of your decisions and the discipline of your execution."

"The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be, and the worse your execution will become."

"Don’t confuse 'was' with 'is'. Execution requires dealing with the world as it exists today."

"If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits. Execution requires reaching beyond your comfort zone."

"Think for yourself while being radically open-minded. This is the only way to execute at a high level."

"Look at the patterns of those mistakes to see if they have a common cause in your execution."

"It is far better to be an explorer of the unknown than a know-it-all when it comes to executing new ideas."

"You must be willing to do things differently if you want to get different results in your execution."

"The biggest mistake most people make is not seeing themselves and others objectively during execution."

"Great people are hard to find, so make sure you think about how to keep them for long-term execution."

"Success comes from knowing how to handle your ignorance. Execution is about managing what you don't know."

"Everything is a machine. If you want to change the output, you have to change the execution of the machine."