My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROSNo individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
More George Soros Quotes
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I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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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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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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.
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My main concern is with the world order.
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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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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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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