black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
GEORGE SOROS

Investment Practice Science Submit
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
GEORGE SOROS

Existence Ourselves Perception
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
The 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.
GEORGE SOROS

Myself Obstacle Opinion Stability Thinking World
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 SOROS

Myself Operation Practice Skills Survive Training Word
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
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
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
Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
GEORGE SOROS

Future Market Present Price View Wrong
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
GEORGE SOROS

Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Condition Development Gold Interest Rate Ultimate
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
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
GEORGE SOROS

Marketing Reality Science
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
GEORGE SOROS

Hands heavy Need Success Time Yourself
The world order needs a major overhaul.
GEORGE SOROS

Need Order Stop World
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

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Soros Quotes