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.
GEORGE SOROSI 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.
GEORGE SOROSThe worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
GEORGE SOROSThe main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
GEORGE SOROSIn politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
GEORGE SOROSThe 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 SOROSDiscount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
GEORGE SOROSThe 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 SOROSMisconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
GEORGE SOROSUnfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
GEORGE SOROSLaw has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
GEORGE SOROSMy approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
GEORGE SOROSThe main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROSIt’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.
GEORGE SOROSI fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
GEORGE SOROSI 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.
GEORGE SOROSThere is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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