300 Quotes by George Soros

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates,

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what will take its place, because it's so important as the motor of the world economy.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he puts himself in a position where he can bail out his cronies who are in financial difficulties, including his son and so on,

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 values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.