American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
GEORGE SOROSThe financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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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 financial markets play an active role in determining what’s going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
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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 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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Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
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An 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.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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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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My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don’t have conviction.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
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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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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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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.
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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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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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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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