If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one’s conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
GEORGE SOROSTo be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
More George Soros Quotes
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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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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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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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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.
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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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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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