black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

George Soros

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

Concept Play Role View World
If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
GEORGE SOROS

Boredom Entertainment Investment Money
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
GEORGE SOROS

Freedom Money Oneself
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
GEORGE SOROS

Democracy Government International Mindset People Solution State
My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
GEORGE SOROS

Concept Criticism Frame Important Mistake Myself Wrong
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
GEORGE SOROS

Concept Growth Market Reality Stock
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
GEORGE SOROS

Concept Forever Maintain
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
GEORGE SOROS

Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
The world order needs a major overhaul.
GEORGE SOROS

Need Order Stop World
America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
GEORGE SOROS

Introduction Policy Process
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
GEORGE SOROS

Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
GEORGE SOROS

Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
GEORGE SOROS

Basic Mistake Recognition Rich Wrong
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
GEORGE SOROS

Aware Myself Rich Wrong
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
GEORGE SOROS

Marketing Reality Science

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Soros Quotes