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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
George Soros
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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
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I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
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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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I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
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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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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them - but not become involved as a market player.
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
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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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