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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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President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.
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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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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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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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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
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Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
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China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.
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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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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
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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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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
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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 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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However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
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Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.
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When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
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My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
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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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Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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