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Investing Quotes by George Soros

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George Soros says markets exist so people can chase profit, but they are always shifting and full of uncertainty. He advises spotting false premises, betting against trends, using options sparingly, and remembering that credit, not money, drives value in the long run.

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A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

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I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

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Market prices are always wrong.

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Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

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Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

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It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

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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 main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

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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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If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

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Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than…

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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's…

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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…

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The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are…

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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…

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There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you…

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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions…

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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care…

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Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the…

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The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence -…

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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework.…

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In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the…

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The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according…

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In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into…

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Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an…

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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…

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“The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong. Even…

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Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are…

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However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must…

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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

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The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

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Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

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Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The…

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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…

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When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate…

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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I…

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we…

“On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level,…

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Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.