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 SOROSIt is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
More George Soros Quotes
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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The 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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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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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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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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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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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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.
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