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.
GEORGE SOROSFind the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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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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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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Market prices are always wrong.
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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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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 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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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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