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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.

George Soros

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Big Myself Situation Worst
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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Crowd Follow Lose Momentum Rise Time
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Investment Practice Science Submit
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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Business Health Law Politics Society
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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Certain Expectation Marketing Money State
Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Future Market Present Price View Wrong
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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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
Market prices are always wrong.
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Market One Liner Price Wrong
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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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
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Establish Fundamental Lying Price Reflection Seek Value

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