I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
GEORGE SOROSThe sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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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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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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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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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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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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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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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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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 prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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