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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.

George Soros

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.
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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
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
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Country Independent Lying Right Strength Talk Thinking
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Assumption Poor Start Wrong Yourself
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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Better Mistake Move On Opportunity Quick Trade
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
My main concern is with the world order.
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One Liner Order World
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
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

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