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Ray Dalio
Founder, Bridgewater Associates
Investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds.
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Books by Ray Dalio
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Books about Ray Dalio
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About Ray Dalio and Bridgewater
The Fund
A reported outside account of Bridgewater Associates and the culture built around Dalio's principles.
About Ray Dalio and Bridgewater
Crying staff, strippers, filthy poems: New book digs into Bridgewater
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Axios · 2023-11-07 · accessed 2026-06-17
The article identifies The Fund as Rob Copeland's book about Bridgewater Associates and Ray Dalio.
Books Ray Dalio recommends, documented so far
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The Lessons of History
The books I'd give them would be The Lessons of History.
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Ray Dalio (#264)
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Tim.blog · 2018-02-01 · accessed 2026-06-21
Transcript lines 297-303 ask which books Dalio would give every graduating high school or college senior and record Dalio naming the three titles.
River Out of Eden
River Out of Eden, by Richard Dawkins. Another very short book on evolution.
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Ray Dalio (#264)
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Tim.blog · 2018-02-01 · accessed 2026-06-21
Transcript lines 297-303 ask which books Dalio would give every graduating high school or college senior and record Dalio naming the three titles.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Again, I would say Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Ray Dalio (#264)
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Tim.blog · 2018-02-01 · accessed 2026-06-21
Transcript lines 297-303 ask which books Dalio would give every graduating high school or college senior and record Dalio naming the three titles.
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Einstein's Mistakes
Here was the greatest mind of the twentieth century, and he made lots of mistakes.
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Mastering the Machine
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The New Yorker · 2011-07-18 · accessed 2026-06-23
The profile says Dalio showed the reporter Einstein's Mistakes, a book he had been reading, and quotes Dalio explaining the lesson he drew from it.