If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
GEORGE SOROSI’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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I 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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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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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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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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My main concern is with the world order.
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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 main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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