My main concern is with the world order.
GEORGE SOROSLaw 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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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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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can’t be maintained forever.
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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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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That’s one of the positive features of markets. That’s why they function.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
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American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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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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There is no point in being confident and having a small position.
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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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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