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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.

George Soros

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.
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Instability Management Money Regulation Risk Transaction Way
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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Animal Greatness Myself
There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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Confidence Position Small
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 reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Marketing Reality Science
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
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Financial Ideas Marketing Prediction
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
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
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Aware Myself Rich Wrong
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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Fake Finding Trend
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
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Care Democracy Establishment Freedom Guard Institution Safe Universe
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.
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Economics Fancy God Kind
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Existence Ourselves Perception
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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Government Misery Poverty Weakness World
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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Business Career Human Man Myself Transformation

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