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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
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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 think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
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Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the course of events. Monetary and real phenomena are connected in a reflexive fashion that is, they influence each other mutually. The reflexive relationship manifests itself most clearly in the use and abuse of credit.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.
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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.
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