The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROSThe strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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