My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROS
To 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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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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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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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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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 financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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