Ray Dalio Quotes

A collection of quotes by Ray Dalio.

Ray Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He was born on August 8, 1949, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Dalio is best known as the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest and most successful hedge funds.

Dalio began his career on Wall Street, initially working at Dominick & Dominick. In 1975, he founded Bridgewater Associates out of his apartment. Under his leadership, the firm grew to become a global powerhouse, managing billions of dollars in assets. Dalio's unique investment strategies, particularly the application of systematic decision-making and macroeconomic analysis, caught the attention of investors and solidified Bridgewater's reputation.

Over the years, Dalio earned a reputation for accurately predicting major economic events and market trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential investors of his time. In addition to his investment success, Dalio has authored several books, including "Principles: Life and Work," in which he details his life principles and investment strategies.

Outside of finance, Dalio is actively involved in philanthropy. He and his wife established the Dalio Foundation, which focuses on supporting education and healthcare initiatives worldwide. Dalio's commitment to giving back has earned him numerous accolades and recognition for his philanthropic efforts.

Today, Ray Dalio continues to shape the investment landscape while dedicating his time and resources to making a positive impact on society.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we

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.

Ray Dalio

Strength Pain Inspirational Limits

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the

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

Positive

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

Ray Dalio

Education

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the perfor

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. 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

Home

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ray Dalio

Future

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants.

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

Society

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you

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

Future