Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
GEORGE SOROSThe 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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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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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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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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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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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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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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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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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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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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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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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My main concern is with the world order.
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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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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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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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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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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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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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