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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

I don’t panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I’m given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Despair Fear Mistake Myself Panic Recognition Survive
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Big Myself Situation Worst
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Finding Manipulation Politics Reality
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.
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Myself Obstacle Opinion Stability Thinking World
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
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.
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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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Business Health Law Politics Society
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat
It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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Important Lose Money Right Wrong Yourself
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception

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