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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.

George Soros

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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Anticipate Event Influence Marketing
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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Component Concept Reality Trend
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Believe Enemy Myself Open Society Threat
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
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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Country Resource Run Work
I 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.
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Basic Despair Fear Mistake Myself Panic Recognition Survive
The world order needs a major overhaul.
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Need Order Stop World
When 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.
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Crowd Follow Lose Momentum Rise Time
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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Concept Criticism Frame Important Mistake Myself Wrong
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
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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Condition Failure Human Imperfection Mistake Ourselves Understand Wrong
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
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Concept Growth Market Reality Stock

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that’s rather shocking for Americans to hear.

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