Bill Belichick & Ray Dalio on Bill's Most Important Principles: Part 1

Bill, what are your main principles for success? Do your job, work hard, pay attention to details, and put the team first. I think they are the principles for all organizations.

I think, ultimately, improvement should be putting the team first, improving and focusing on your job. You have to put the mission first. That's right. You have to individually have self-improvement. In order to have self-improvement, you have to have self-awareness, and therefore you have to be open-minded. Yes, you have to accept the criticism and you have to decide what you're going to do about it.

These were the things that you were saying? Yes, the same things I would say. Give me more principles. They're good principles. In our business, we're very public, so there's a lot of things that are said by a lot of people that don't really have intimate knowledge of what the situation is.

So I encountered this. You listen? Sure, I mean you have family, you have media, you have other things that don’t really affect the product; it's just talk about the product. So ignore the noise and there's no need for us to fuel that. Like, our job is to perform, not to do things that create more hype, more of a distraction.

Just focus on that. That's not our job; our job is to perform. So see, there's a lot of wisdom there. There's a lot of wisdom that can be applied to, okay, yes, I have to deal with the media or whatever. There are different people having different things, but just focus on doing your job and performing.

So it's just many people, not just me, many businesses, maybe many arts, maybe many different endeavors have the same thing. So the, you know, the person who doesn't know much and then they offer their opinions, but your advice to all of them is just perform. Ignore the noise. Good principles for others.