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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.

George Soros

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
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
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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Concept Forever Maintain
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
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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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
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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Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
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Concept Growth Market Reality Stock
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
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
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
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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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat

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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