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The 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 Soros

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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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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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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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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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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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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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The 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.

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