The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
GEORGE SOROSTo be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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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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