To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
GEORGE SOROSTo be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
GEORGE SOROSI 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.
GEORGE SOROSThe sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
GEORGE SOROSShort term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
GEORGE SOROSWhen 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.
GEORGE SOROSThe financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
GEORGE SOROSAn 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.
GEORGE SOROSThe collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
GEORGE SOROSI fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
GEORGE SOROSThe main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROSThe reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
GEORGE SOROSWhen a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
GEORGE SOROSThe main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.
GEORGE SOROSMaking an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
GEORGE SOROSWell, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
GEORGE SOROSThe scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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