Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
Ray DalioLook 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 DalioLife is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can't stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it's better to learn how to deal with them.
Ray DalioI learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.
Ray Dalio