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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

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
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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Mistake Myself Pride Recognition Shame Wrong
When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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Condition Development Gold Interest Rate Ultimate
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
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
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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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Big Myself Situation Worst
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.
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Element Myself Reality Relate Trend World
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word

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