In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
GEORGE SOROSWhat works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
More George Soros Quotes
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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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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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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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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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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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