In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
GEORGE SOROSMarkets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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I don’t panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I’m given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that 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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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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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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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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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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