300 Quotes by George Soros

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

Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values.

I’m not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

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 value of that. But they’re not designed to take care of social needs.

Democracy, by its very nature, can’t be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes.

Mankind’s ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves.

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don’t deal with climate change.

Every bubble has two components: something – some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.