Ray Dalio Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.”

“A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.”

“I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.”

“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.”

“I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.”

“Almost everything is like a machine.”

“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.”

“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.”

“An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.”

“I don't get caught up in the moment.”