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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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Boredom Entertainment Investment Money
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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Fake Ideology Money Word
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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Marketing Myself Opposite Right Wisdom
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
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
Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Establishment Persistence Run
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
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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Condition Development Gold Interest Rate Ultimate
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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Carry Flaw Life Logic Meaning Oneself See
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Finding Manipulation Politics Reality
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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Basic Despair Fear Mistake Myself Panic Recognition Survive
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

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