George Soros Quotations

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Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Business]

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Business]

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, Soros said. The Bush administration merely has a narrower definition of self-interest. It does not include the interests of others.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Society] [Government] [Freedom]

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.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Work] [Charity]

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.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Work]

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Failure]

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Poverty] [Government]

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Poverty]

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.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Charity]

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.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Charity]

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

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.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

As a kid I played Monopoly with the twist I invented of buying and selling shares in the bank. Well, today, I do the same.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

I am cautious about going against the herd; I am liable to be trampled on.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

I am not an entrepreneur who builds businesses. I am an investor who judges them. My function in the financial markets is that of a critic and my critical judgements are expressed by my decisions to buy and sell.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

I could have made things more difficult but I didn't because I felt a certain responsibility not to destroy the European Monetary System.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

I felt safe betting with the Bundesbank. The Bundesbank clearly wanted the lira and the pound devalued, but it was prepared to defend the franc. In the end, the score was Bundesbank 3-nil; speculators, 2-1.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

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 lose when you're wrong.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
	- George Soros	more quotations on [Investing]

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