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.
GEORGE SOROSThe world order needs a major overhaul.
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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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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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My main concern is with the world order.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
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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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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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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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