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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

George Soros

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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Freedom Money Oneself
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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Assumption Poor Start Wrong Yourself
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation
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
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
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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Follow Institution Performance Relation Trend Trouble
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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Business Health Law Politics Society
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
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
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
Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
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
Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Future Market Present Price View Wrong
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Investment Practice Science Submit
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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Correct Fake Myself Oneself Prediction Valid Work
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection

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