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The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
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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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The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
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The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
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Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.
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There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
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Market prices are always wrong.
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
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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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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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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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As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
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I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
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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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The world order needs a major overhaul.
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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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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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Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.
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