Ray Dalio on Work Quotes

"Don’t worry about looking good—worry about achieving your goals."

"Pain + Reflection = Progress."

"If you don’t look back at yourself a year ago and think, ‘Wow, how stupid I was,’ then you haven’t learned much."

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

"The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down."

"Truth—or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality—is the essential foundation for any good outcome."

"Great partnerships come from sharing both values and interests."

"I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well."

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

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

"The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be."

"I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want."

"Triangulate your view with believable people who are willing to disagree."

"Manage as someone who’s designing and operating a machine to achieve a goal."

"Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life."

"Great people are those who have high-character and great capabilities."

"If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not smart, you are not going to keep it."

"The greatest challenge you will face is managing your own emotions."

"Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge."

"Weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions to them."

"Reality is a beautiful machine."

"Think for yourself while being radically open-minded."

"The quality of your life depends on the quality of your decisions."

"Don’t confuse what you wish were true with what is really true."

"Meditation has been the single most important reason for whatever success I've had."

"A great organization has both great people and a great culture."

"To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be an independent thinker."

"Strive to achieve a lot and strive to fail well."

"Meaningful work and meaningful relationships are the two things that matter most."

"Don’t let yourself be a victim of your circumstances."

"The person who is willing to look at their own mistakes is the person who will improve."

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