Ray Dalio Quotes

• When people get at each other’s throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Poor, Left

• When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Growth, Inflation

• encourage them to do is to understand that there’s inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Trying, Understand

• Treat your life like a game.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Game, Treat

• There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Time, Beautiful

• There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Bad, Eyes

• There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Two, Growth, Class

• The world is still in deleveraging.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still

• The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Daily, Wrong, Reason

• The economy is like a machine.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Machine

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

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Big, Question

• So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Business, Nature, Work

• Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Less, Debt, Spend

• Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money

  Tags in May, Over

• Maintain ‘baseball cards’ and/or ‘believability matrixes’ for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Did, Play

• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money, Society

  Tags in Look

• Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sure

• It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Down, Interest

• In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Give, Why

• In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it’s disruptive and it’s a problem.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Problem, Problems

Ray Dalio (41)

Birth:	1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Financier, Founder

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