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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
George Soros
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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
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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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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 worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
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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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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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I rely a great deal on animal instincts.
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I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
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The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
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It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.
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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 am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
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The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.
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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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These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them - but not become involved as a market player.
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At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.
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Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.
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I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
George Soros
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.
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