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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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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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The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.
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Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
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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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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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Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
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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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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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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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Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.
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There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.
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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.
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