George Soros Quotes

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George Soros

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 12, 1930

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

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My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

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We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

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Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

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

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A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

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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 going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

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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 in a quagmire.

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The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

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I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

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I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

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

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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

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President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

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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 without intending to.

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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 after social needs.

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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 I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

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