Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

Quotes from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio:

• The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.
• I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.
• Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.
• Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.
• I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.
• Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make.
• It’s more important to do big things well than to do the small things perfectly.
• Choose your habits well. Habit is probably the most powerful tool in your brain’s toolbox.