The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROSThe scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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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.
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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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To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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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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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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An 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.
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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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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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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
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The 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.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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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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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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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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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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