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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.

George Soros

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
GEORGE SOROS

Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
GEORGE SOROS

Economics Fancy God Kind
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
GEORGE SOROS

Freedom Money Oneself
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
GEORGE SOROS

Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat
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.
GEORGE SOROS

Discover Greatness Marketing Rise Similar System
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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Difference Future Investment Profit Success Yourself
Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.
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Element Myself Reality Relate Trend World
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
GEORGE SOROS

Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
GEORGE SOROS

Mistake Myself Pride Recognition Shame Wrong
The 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 SOROS

Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
GEORGE SOROS

Correction Errors Insecurity Myself
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
GEORGE SOROS

Institution International Law State
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
GEORGE SOROS

Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand
My main concern is with the world order.
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One Liner Order World

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