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My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

George Soros

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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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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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
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My main concern is with the world order
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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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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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If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
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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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A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
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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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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.
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I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
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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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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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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.
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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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The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.
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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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