Ray Dalio Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
-
My journey has been that of a character actor.
-
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
-
I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
-
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
-
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
-
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
-
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.
-
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
-
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
-
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
-
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
-
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.
-
Tyga's one of my best friends ever, so it's so much fun to travel with him. I always like having my friends out on the road with me.
-
When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.
-
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
-
The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn't deserve to be undercut. And I didn't want that to happen.
-
I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
-
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
-
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
-
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
-
I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
-
There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.
