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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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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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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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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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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
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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 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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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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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
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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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Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
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Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected
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An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.
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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 sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.
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America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
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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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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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