Book · 2018 · Business & Economics
Principles
Your Guided Journal (Create Your Own Principles to Get the Work and Life You Want)
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Principles, an incredible book. If you haven't read it, highly recommend that you get it.
Jay Shetty · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Nov 2022 Listen at 0:58 What they say about it
- Highly recommends the book“highly recommend that you get it”3


- Calls it a favorite“one of my favorite books”2


The best things said about it
The this book Principles by Ray Dalio, which I’m going to link all of them below for anyone that wants to read them. I suggest you read them all.
Author of a book I highly recommend called Principles.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2021 One of my favorite books, Principles.
Jay Shetty On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Jan 2021 The one I give people that are trying to learn actively is Principles by Ray Dalio.
Kevin Systrom The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2019 Why Ray Dalio's book Principles became like a best-seller even though 99.9% of people who are reading the book aren't even investors.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Apr 2023 I think it's a hell of a book.
Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio · Mar 2018 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
18 people who brought it up
Jay Shetty6 mentions · 4 recs- Steven Bartlett3 mentions · 2 recs
- David Friedberg6 mentions · 1 rec
- Jordan Harbinger3 mentions · 1 rec
Chamath Palihapitiya2 mentions · 1 rec
Kevin Systrom2 mentions · 1 rec
Lex Fridman1 mention · 1 rec- Matt Mullenweg1 mention · 1 rec
Tom Bilyeu1 mention · 1 rec- Shaan Puri3 mentions
Chris Williamson2 mentions- Peter Schweizer2 mentions
Why people recommend it
Principles by Ray Dalio is a practical guide to decision-making, life management, and systematic economics based on the author's decades of experience running Bridgewater Associates. Steven Bartlett recommended the book on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, praising the animated companion videos on Dalio's YouTube channel and urging listeners to read the work. Frank mentioned the title on ChooseFI during a discussion on asset allocation models and risk parity. Jay Shetty highly recommended the book on On Purpose with Jay Shetty for its abundance of wisdom and insights. On All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, Jason Calacanis discussed the animated documentary version of the book, while David Friedberg noted how accurately current geopolitical dynamics were following the simple rubric laid out in Dalio's framework. Lex Fridman recommended the book on the Lex Fridman Podcast, highlighting both the original text and its follow-up focusing on the changing world order.
Every mention
Jay Shetty the first time I spoke to him we're speaking about his book principles an incredible book if you haven't re… 6
“the first time I spoke to him we're speaking about his book principles an incredible book if you haven't read it highly recommend that you get it”
“and the author of this incredible book called principles now i read this book when it first came out and there were so many incredible insights of wisdom in there”
“so today i want to dive into life and work and many different areas that you speak about in your incredible book principles and the first thing i want to dive into is these stages of life you speak about”
“the other thing which we've already dive into today you called your book principles and i thought that that was quite a counter-cultural way of doing it in a good way in in a and the reason i say that is today so much of the language around business and work”
“if anyone loved the conversation today make sure you go and grab a copy of principles by ray dalio if you haven't already”
“he's the number one new york times best-selling author of one of my favorite books principles”
Steven Bartlett Principles is the first one that I ever read, but then I watched all of your your videos on your YouTube ch… 3
“Principles is the first one that I ever read, but then I watched all of your your videos on your YouTube channel, which explain it in animated ways.”
“Based on your life cycle in this book, Principles: Your Guided Journey, Create Your Own Principles to Get the Work and Life You Want do you think you have to play different games in different seasons of your life cycle as it relates to generating wealth?”
“The this book Principles by Ray Dalio, which I’m going to link all of them below for anyone that wants to read them. I suggest you read them all.”
David Friedberg I think again, if you read Ray Dalio's book, which I recommended heavily last year, um it's surprising how… 6
“You have been in the Ray Dalio camp concerning the end of empires and whether the U.S. might be winding down its supremacy. Dalio pretty much asserts that this is the moment; is there any light between your position and his?”
“and what ray dalio said in his book about how during these periods when the empires begin their decline and you know when you're challenged with kind of the economic conditions that the u.s is challenged by printing lots of money lots of debt very hard to service all that debt”
“you know if you guys read ray dalio's book which we've talked about a number of times he's identified and highlighted that a growing economy and a successful um uh country improves by improving education and having more people get higher education generally speaking”
“I think again, if you read Ray Dalio's book, which I recommended heavily last year, um it's surprising how much of that simple um rubric uh is playing out uh today uh exactly as that rubric kind of estimated it would.”
“i've talked about ray dalio's book principles before and some of the work he's done on this where he is so adamant about getting culture right within the organization how you operate that they almost have i think a 30 attrition rate after the first year of people that come in because they not only try and screen for these”
“I've talked about Ray Dalio's book, Principles, before and some of the work he's done on this where he is so adamant about getting culture right within the organization, how you operate, that they almost have, I think, a 30% attrition rate after the first year of people that come in.”
Jordan Harbinger i know you have the whole book principles has been you've talked about it a lot people should read it we'll… 3
“as you do in principles you said this in a way that was genius”
“that's something i believe that i took from principles”
“i know you have the whole book principles has been you've talked about it a lot people should read it we'll link to it in the show notes along with the changing world order”
Chamath Palihapitiya But by the way, there's a new video that Dalio just put out, which is like the 45-minute animated documenta… 2
“This is a really important point: if you guys read Ray Dalio’s book, which we've talked about many times, he highlights that a growing economy and a successful country improves by improving education and having more people obtain higher education in general.”
“But by the way, there's a new video that Dalio just put out, which is like the 45-minute animated documentary version of his book again.”
Kevin Systrom I give kids books, but uh the one I give people that are are trying to learn actively is Principles by Ray… 2
“you know uh ray at bridgewater is always fascinating because you know people it's been called like a cult on the outside or cultish and but what's fascinating is like they just don't give on their principles”
“I give kids books, but uh the one I give people that are are trying to learn actively is Principles by Ray Dalio.”
Lex Fridman author of a book i highly recommend called principles and also a new book called principles for dealing wit… 1
“author of a book i highly recommend called principles and also a new book called principles for dealing with a changing world order that looks at the geopolitics of today”
Matt Mullenweg It's called Principles by Ray Dalio, who's one of the most successful hedge fund investors. And he runs his… 1
“It's called Principles by Ray Dalio, who's one of the most successful hedge fund investors. And he runs his company in an extremely interesting way.”
Tom Bilyeu we call it principles from ray dalio's book and that is so instructive to get that like raw feedback 1
“we call it principles from ray dalio's book and that is so instructive to get that like raw feedback”
Shaan Puri Well, this is the best part of your book. It's you write the principle. You're not saying these are your pr… 3
“and then I put online the principles just so we we have a book of how we're going to be with each other the principles and then that got around 3 million copies were it was downloaded 3 million times.”
“Well, this is the best part of your book. It's you write the principle. You're not saying these are your principles for everybody. You're like these are my principles. If if you take away anything, it should be that you should have figure out what yours are.”
“you have Ray Dalio that says look I've been studying empires and all empires come to an end here's the cycles that they go through and I think that America's at the tail end of the cycle so you go read that book you go watch his talks”
Chris Williamson Why Ray Dalio's book Principles became like a best-seller even though 99.9% of people who are reading the b… 2
“Why Ray Dalio's book Principles became like a best-seller even though 99.9% of people who are reading the book aren't even investors”
“principles is great book um so yeah Ray dalio have me”
Peter Schweizer dalia wrote this book in 2017 called principles which is kind of an ironic title based on what i'm about to… 2
“dalia wrote this book in 2017 called principles which is kind of an ironic title based on what i'm about to tell you”
“he wrote a book in 2017 called principles which is ironic based on what i'm about to tell you in that book”
Ray Dalio because like I I wrote in my other book principles one of the handy things is if you're having a disagreement 2
“because like I I wrote in my other book principles one of the handy things is if you're having a disagreement”
“I studied when I studied this I studied last 500 years of history and to see the arcs because the arcs typically take 100 or 150 years to have an arc a big cycle and so I needed to study the 500 years and I put it out in a book changing World Order”
Stephen Dubner And Principles, the book, part one, grew out of a non-book version that you published a while back. 2
“And Principles, the book, part one, grew out of a non-book version that you published a while back.”
“I don't know if you've seen the new book by Ray Dalio. Sure have, yeah. I think it's a hell of a book.”
Bari Weiss he's a guy who's written a book called principles which is hilarious when you're watching that clip 1
“he's a guy who's written a book called principles which is hilarious when you're watching that clip”
Brian Keating in principles he says an expert is someone who's done something three times successfully like you can do on… 1
“in principles he says an expert is someone who's done something three times successfully like you can do one something correctly”
Eric Jorgenson i know ray dalio put many many hours of effort into into principles both for his business and and for the book 1
“i know ray dalio put many many hours of effort into into principles both for his business and and for the book”
Marshall Fox principles by diio just the one idea of thinking about a business like a machine that you can tweak over time 1
“principles by diio just the one idea of thinking about a business like a machine that you can tweak over time”
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“but if you read principles by dalio or if you look at other things and there are I don't a lot of research on this is there are precursors to this that go back to the 1970s”
“um but if you read principles by dalio or if you look at other things and there are I don't a lot of research on this is there are precursors to this that go back to the 1970s something called the permanent portfolio which was invented by a guy named Harry Brown which was 25 gold 25 long-term treasuries 25”
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“He actually wrote a decent enough book and uh is always worth listening to.”
“and Frank that reminds me of a quote you have here on the home page of riskparityradio.com from Ray dalio author of principles”
“I think what you're doing in "Principles" and putting them in one place, I think that's really special.”
“some of the principles that i wrote in in principles helped me a lot”
“i hope they'll read chapters eight and nine in the changing world order because it's about internal order and disorders”
“and ray actually has the book principles right and he talks about the hero's journey”
“his ideas that are applicable to everyone are brilliantly summarized in his book principles”
“I mentioned in my book principles and describe the process in a more complete way than we're gonna be able to go here”
“Today's episode is based on a conversation we recorded previously with Ray Dalio, author of the book Principles: Life and Work.”
“We spoke in October, soon after Dalio had published a sort of work-life manifesto called Principles.”
“You know, it's funny. I read your book. I don't know if you've thought about this or if others have said this to you, but I read this as a little bit of an analog to Danny Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow.”
“Josh, a lot of your team comes from Bridgewater, which is now one of the better-known hedge funds, especially after Ray Dalio's book came out.”





