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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

George Soros

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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Boredom Entertainment Investment Money
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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Carry Flaw Life Logic Meaning Oneself See
The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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Determination Economics Function Marketing Role
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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Crowd Follow Lose Momentum Rise Time
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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Business Health Law Politics Society
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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Difference Future Investment Profit Success Yourself
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
Market prices are always wrong.
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Market One Liner Price Wrong
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
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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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
My main concern is with the world order.
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One Liner Order World
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception

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