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.
GEORGE SOROSFind the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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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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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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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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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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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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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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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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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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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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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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