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Financial Quotes by George Soros
- I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression…
- 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…
- The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
- The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were…
- 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…
- Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful…
- The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is…
- Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market…
- In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National…
- Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will…
- I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets…
- The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen…
More Financial Quotes
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer
- The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. — Javier Bardem
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. — Scott Adams
- I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of… — Candice Bergen
- The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in… — Ben Bernanke
- Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke
- Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. — Ben Bernanke
- I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I… — Joe Biden
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce
- Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. — Ambrose Bierce
- We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services… — Michael Bloomberg