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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

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
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
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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Myself Operation Practice Skills Survive Training Word
My main concern is with the world order.
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One Liner Order World
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Mistake Recognition Rich Wrong
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
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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Confidence Position Scale Yourself
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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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
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
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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Aware Myself Rich Wrong
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work

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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