In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

In 2012 Dalio was named in Time 100 an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time. In both 2011 and 2012 he was included by Bloomberg Markets in its 50 Most Influential ranking. Ray Dalio (born 1949) is an American businessman and founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates.