My main concern is with the world order.
GEORGE SOROSTo others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
More George Soros Quotes
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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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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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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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.
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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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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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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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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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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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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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