Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
GEORGE SOROSAmerica needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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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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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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No 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.
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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
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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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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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My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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