The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
GEORGE SOROSThe main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
More George Soros Quotes
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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
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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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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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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.
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My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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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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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Market prices are always wrong.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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