Ray Dalio Quotes

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

Look 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.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

Kleenex would have made a mint today.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

So my resolution this year is: I'm not a money guy, but I want to make our next product a commercial success, so that people will say, 'Hey, there's a huge market out there. If you make a high-quality games that can touch people, it's going to do great business.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

You can't survive if you don't make money. But as far as I'm concerned, we never, ever make a product with the idea that we'd make a lot of money. We make products because we're inspired by the idea that people will love it.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

You either make sense or you make money.

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.

I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash.

Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.