Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
GEORGE SOROSWhen interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
More George Soros Quotes
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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I don’t panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I’m given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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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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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Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected.
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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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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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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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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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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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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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