My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROSMy sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROSStock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
GEORGE SOROSAn 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.
GEORGE SOROSThere 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.
GEORGE SOROSMarket prices are always wrong.
GEORGE SOROSAmerica needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
GEORGE SOROSAmerican supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
GEORGE SOROSIf the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
GEORGE SOROSThe collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
GEORGE SOROSEvery 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.
GEORGE SOROSIf 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.
GEORGE SOROSIf 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.
GEORGE SOROSStart by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
GEORGE SOROSI chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
GEORGE SOROSIf 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.
GEORGE SOROSIt is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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