The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
GEORGE SOROSThe main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
GEORGE SOROSThe 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.
GEORGE SOROSI fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
GEORGE SOROSOnce a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
GEORGE SOROSThe main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROSI’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
GEORGE SOROSThe world order needs a major overhaul.
GEORGE SOROSTo 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.
GEORGE SOROSMy 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.
GEORGE SOROSMy sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROSOnce we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
GEORGE SOROSIt is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
GEORGE SOROSThe 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.
GEORGE SOROSEvery 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.
GEORGE SOROSThe sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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.
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