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George Soros Quotes

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."

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

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

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

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