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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
George Soros
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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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György Schwartz
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It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
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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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
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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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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.
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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
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Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
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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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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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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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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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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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