My main concern is with the world order.
GEORGE SOROSI’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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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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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
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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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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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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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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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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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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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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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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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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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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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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
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