Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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.
More George Soros Quotes
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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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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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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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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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
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Market prices 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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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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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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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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