Top 11 books recommended by Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, philanthropist and author. He is the founder of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, and co-chief investment officer of its affiliated family of funds. He is known for his unique investment and management principles, which he has outlined in his book Principles: Life and Work. He has been included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Destined for War
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Destined for War
  • By: Graham Allison
  • Narrator: Graham Allison
  • Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 30, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (3284 ratings)
(3284 ratings)

Reminds us that over the last 500 years there have been 16 times in which there has been [...] an empire challenging another. In 12 of those cases there have been wars.

War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard... Read more
Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Dylan Baker
  • Length: 25 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (1134447 ratings)
(1134447 ratings)

I noticed a number of similarities between [Steve Jobs and I], especially when [the author] quoted Jobs’s own words. [...] but to be clear, I didn’t think that Bridgewater or I held a candle to Apple and Jobs.

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the YearWalter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over... Read more
Keeping At It
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Keeping At It
  • By: Paul A Volcker
  • Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd
  • Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: October 30, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (728 ratings)
(728 ratings)

[The author] is an American hero who has seen more and done more to shape the world economy than anyone else over the last 50 years. [This book] is a must read.

The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point. As chairman of the... Read more
The Meaning of Human Existence
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The Meaning of Human Existence
  • By: Edward O. Wilson
  • Narrator: Edward O. Wilson
  • Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: October 06, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (2 ratings)
(2 ratings)

Surmises that between one million and two million years ago, [...] the brain evolved in ways supporting cooperation so man could hunt and do other activities.

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called “the rainbow colors” around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence.... Read more
Einstein
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Einstein
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Length: 21 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (162596 ratings)
(162596 ratings)

I read [this book and "Benjamin Franklin"] and probed [Walter Isaacson] about them to try to glean what characteristics they had in common.

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy,... Read more
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Nelson Runger
  • Length: 24 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (129484 ratings)
(129484 ratings)

I read [this book and "Einstein"] and probed [Walter Isaacson] about them to try to glean what characteristics they had in common.

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the... Read more
Strength in Stillness
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Strength in Stillness
  • By: Bob Roth
  • Narrator: Bob Roth
  • Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (1368 ratings)
(1368 ratings)

Masterfully distills the essence of [Transcendental Meditation] so that anyone can understand how it works—and why they should learn it.

Instant New York Times Bestseller A simple, straightforward exploration of Transcendental Meditation and its benefits from world authority Bob Roth.Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. Ray Dalio and Ellen DeGeneres. Gwyneth Paltrow and Howard Stern.... Read more
Accidental Presidents
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Accidental Presidents
  • By: Jared Cohen
  • Narrator: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 16 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (1988 ratings)
(1988 ratings)

Provides me a valuable and entertaining view of past presidents during analogous difficult times.

This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks–and deja vu” (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being... Read more
What It Takes
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What It Takes
  • By: Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Narrator: Drew Birdseye
  • Length: 21 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (5036 ratings)
(5036 ratings)

The real story of what it takes from a man who could turn dreams into realities.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman’s life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations.... Read more
The Lessons of History
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The Lessons of History
  • By: Will Durant
  • Narrator: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (10208 ratings)
(10208 ratings)

This is the Durants. They were maybe the greatest historians of all time.

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history... Read more
The Fountainhead
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The Fountainhead
  • By: Ayn Rand
  • Narrator: Christopher Hurt
  • Length: 32 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 1994
  • Language: English
  • (293880 ratings)
(293880 ratings)

Regarding economics, if you haven’t read [this author] lately, I suggest that you do.

One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal... Read more
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