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Investing Quotes by George Soros
- If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take]…
- When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
- We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught…
- Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
- If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces;…
- We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious…
- 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 underestimate…
- The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant…
- 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…
- I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were…
- Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the…
- The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the…
- It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
- The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
- The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is…
- If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one…
- When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks…
- In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is…
- We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try…
- Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact…
- I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.
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