Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
GEORGE SOROSThe sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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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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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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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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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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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.
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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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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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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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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
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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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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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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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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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