Ray Dalio Quotes

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

There's always things that I can improve on.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.