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 SOROSStock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
GEORGE SOROSMarkets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
GEORGE SOROSWhen money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
GEORGE SOROSI’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
GEORGE SOROSThe financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
GEORGE SOROSFundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
GEORGE SOROSMarkets can influence the events that they anticipate.
GEORGE SOROSI fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
GEORGE SOROSThe main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
GEORGE SOROSThe hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
GEORGE SOROSDiscount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
GEORGE SOROSI 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 SOROSWhat works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
GEORGE SOROSThere is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
GEORGE SOROSI’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
GEORGE SOROSThe worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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