George Soros Quotes

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

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.

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.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

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.