George Soros

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

— George Soros

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

— George Soros

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

— George Soros

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

— George Soros

The world order needs a major overhaul.

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

— George Soros

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

— George Soros

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

— George Soros

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

— George Soros

President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.

— George Soros

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

— George Soros

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

— George Soros

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

— George Soros

“At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.”

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There…

— George Soros

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook…

— George Soros

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and…

— George Soros

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct…

— George Soros

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and…

— George Soros

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you…

— George Soros

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government…

— George Soros

These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government…

— George Soros

The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany…

— George Soros

America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they…

— George Soros

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that…

— George Soros

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare…

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important…

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

“Now look at the ideology of American supremacy. It has a solid foundation in reality; namely, the United States is the dominant…

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

“Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. The concept of equilibrium is very useful. It allows us to focus…

— George Soros

I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which…

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

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

— George Soros

Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I…

— George Soros

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

— George Soros