black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

George Soros

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.
GEORGE SOROS

Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Instability Management Money Regulation Risk Transaction Way
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
GEORGE SOROS

Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
GEORGE SOROS

Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
GEORGE SOROS

Financial Global Path System
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
GEORGE SOROS

Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
GEORGE SOROS

Myself Operation Practice Skills Survive Training Word
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
GEORGE SOROS

Concept Growth Market Reality Stock
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
GEORGE SOROS

Country Independent Lying Right Strength Talk Thinking
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
GEORGE SOROS

Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
GEORGE SOROS

Carry Flaw Life Logic Meaning Oneself See
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
GEORGE SOROS

Obstacle Order Stability World
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Discover Greatness Marketing Rise Similar System
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
GEORGE SOROS

Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
GEORGE SOROS

Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
GEORGE SOROS

Fake Ideology Money Word

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Soros Quotes