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

George Soros

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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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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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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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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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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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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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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