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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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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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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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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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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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If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.
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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
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In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
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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 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 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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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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The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.
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We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money.
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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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Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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