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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

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
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
My main concern is with the world order.
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One Liner Order World
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Institution International Law State
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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Diminish Establishment Greatness Short Time
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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Concept Forever Maintain
America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Introduction Policy Process
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
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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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
The financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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Determination Economics Function Marketing Role
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity 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
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
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Obstacle Order Stability World

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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