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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.
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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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Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.
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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
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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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Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom of a more profound misalignment. The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. [...] That was absurd.
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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
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Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
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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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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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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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China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.
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