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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 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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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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I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.
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I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes
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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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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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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.
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Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
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Law 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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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.
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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
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As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.
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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
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I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.
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Market prices are always wrong.
George Soros
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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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