investing
4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2025 by Ray Dalio · across every show →
Everything said about investing, oldest first
Dec 20, 2025
Dalio: Systematizing decision criteria and backtesting removes emotion from investing
“The way I learned to invest, ah, was to write down my criteria when I was making a decision. Every time I'd make a decision, I would then think, why am I making that decision? And then I write down the criteria and see how it would have worked in the past.”
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Palihapitiya: Successful investing is a strictly individual endeavor, not a team sport
“To be a very successful investor, you have to be extremely, extremely single-minded. You need to come to your own conclusions. You cannot have others help you. It is not a team sport. That is probably the single most important thing. Whenever I see teams of in…”
Mar 25, 2026 neutral
Sunak: The long term is just survived short terms aligned with strategy
“Someone put it to me well, they said that, you know, the long term is really just a succession of short terms that you either survived or were not kicked out of. And actually I realized over time there isn't, at least in politics, maybe it's more broadly in bu…”
May 4, 2026 neutral
Marks: Exceptional, low-risk returns come from unloved assets, not popular ones
“If you go into a field that everybody likes and they like it a lot and have bid up the price, then your returns are not likely to be high. If they, if you go into a field where everybody else has been blind to the merits and says, I wouldn't touch that with a …”