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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

George Soros

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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Criticism Myself Qualification Reality Study Theory
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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Attain Improvement Infinite Perfection
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
Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Deal Economics Goodness Preparation Study
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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Concept Play Role View World
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.
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End Enthusiasm Revolution Start Tears
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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Better Intelligence Investment Limitation Understand
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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Consequence Global Imagination Market Myself Place Present Trauma
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Big Myself Situation Worst
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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Hard Judgement Level Life Risk
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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Freedom Home Myself Open Society Value
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
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Complex Errors Fortunate Mistake Room System
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Finding Interest Manipulation Politics Truth
Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
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Anticipate Event Influence Marketing
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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Difference Ideas Interest Kind Money Myself People Personal
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

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

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