Ray Dalio

“You can always tell which asset managers Are clever by the ones that invest a lot of time in Australia. Bridgewater was a very early player in that space, because I think Ray Dalio understood that these people were very sophisticated, and there's money coming …”

“It's sometimes hard interviewing folks like Ray Dalio or Stephen Schwarzman because they are so smart and so well-practiced. They will never tell you anything that they don't mean to tell you or that hasn't been strategically decided to tell you.”

“Bridgewater is like, take MIT and Harvard's economics department and Stanford and Caltech's comp sci department and have them run by a cult leader and shift that all together, and you've got Bridgewater.”

“Early on, he was meeting with Ray in our office in Westport, and afterwards, Ray grabbed me in the hallway and said, that guy I was talking to, he's got good common sense, we should hire him, which is about the most positive thing I've ever heard from Ray afte…”

“To this day, it's 80 hours, 90 hours focused on what's happening in the world and how to think about it and how to build a great company.”

“All these CEOs and getting all this great exposure, and also getting great exposure, people like Leon Cooperman, Byron Wayne, Ray Dalio used to come in and sell us this newsletter.”