At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers. — George Soros Copy Share Image
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look… — George Soros Copy Share Image
You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than… — George Soros Copy Share Image
America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. — George Soros Copy Share Image
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits. — George Soros Copy Share Image
If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level,… — George Soros Copy Share Image