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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

George Soros

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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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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Greatness Interest Member Open Possible Society
Market prices are always wrong.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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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
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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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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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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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
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

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