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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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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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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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.
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.
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The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
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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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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.
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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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
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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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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