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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

George Soros

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Investment Practice Science Submit
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Institution International Law State
There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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Confidence Position Small
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
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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Introduction Policy Process
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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Basic Despair Fear Mistake Myself Panic Recognition Survive
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
Market prices are always wrong.
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Market One Liner Price Wrong
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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Marketing Myself Opposite Right Wisdom
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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Certain Expectation Marketing Money State
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
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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Democracy Government International Mindset People Solution State
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
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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Concept Criticism Frame Important Mistake Myself Wrong

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