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 SOROSAmerican supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
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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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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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To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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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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My main concern is with the world order.
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The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.
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