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.
GEORGE SOROSIt 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.
GEORGE SOROSIn politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
GEORGE SOROSI 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.
GEORGE SOROSRevolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
GEORGE SOROSEvery bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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 SOROSFind the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
GEORGE SOROSNo 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.
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 SOROSMarket prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
GEORGE SOROSMisconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
GEORGE SOROSThe reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
GEORGE SOROSThe worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
GEORGE SOROSThe world order needs a major overhaul.
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 SOROSIt is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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