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.
GEORGE SOROSThe main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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It 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.
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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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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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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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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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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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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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