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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.

George Soros

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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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
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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Attention Feature Influence Market Moral Oneself Participant Pay Positive Price
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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Beginning Comfortable Creation God Kind Live Myself Sick
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
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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Greatness Interest Member Open Possible Society
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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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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Assumption Poor Start Wrong Yourself
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
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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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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Discount Expectation Inspirational Risk
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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Competition Greatness Rival Threat World
The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Financial Global Path System
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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Basic Mistake Recognition Rich Wrong

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 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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