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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
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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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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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I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
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