George Soros Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Soros
George Soros Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.
America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
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.
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.
When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
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.
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.
I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.
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.
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.
Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it's certainly not safe and it's not going to last forever.
The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.