Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wron...
GEORGE SOROS Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
GEORGE SOROS Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wron...
GEORGE SOROS Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
GEORGE SOROS The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... Th...
GEORGE SOROS Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
GEORGE SOROS I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open societ...
GEORGE SOROS Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvio...
GEORGE SOROS There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sh...
GEORGE SOROS President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American valu...
GEORGE SOROS When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways,...
GEORGE SOROS Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvio...
GEORGE SOROS Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wro...
GEORGE SOROS Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforceme...
GEORGE SOROS Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal ...
GEORGE SOROS We have come to realize that a large hedge fund like Quantum Fund is no longer the best way to manag...
GEORGE SOROS Up to those amounts the countries concerned would be able to access international capital markets at...
GEORGE SOROS The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illega...
GEORGE SOROS A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system ...
GEORGE SOROS The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequil...
GEORGE SOROS I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we rea...
GEORGE SOROS Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, ine...
GEORGE SOROS balanced multi-manager hedge fund.
GEORGE SOROS Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military pow...
GEORGE SOROS I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very b...
GEORGE SOROS Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, y...
GEORGE SOROS To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are s...
GEORGE SOROS This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the glo...
GEORGE SOROS In my old age I have become somewhat conservative, ... But we will probably have a more mediocre per...
GEORGE SOROS Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its bein...
GEORGE SOROS The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... Th...
GEORGE SOROS We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addit...
GEORGE SOROS The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we...
GEORGE SOROS I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates,
GEORGE SOROS It will require, I think, the release of funds and perhaps even an increased package to bring stabil...
GEORGE SOROS Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th mo...
GEORGE SOROS I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public rel...
GEORGE SOROS Clinton has a concrete goal of getting China into the WTO, his near-term agenda is to get China in.
GEORGE SOROS I really want to help people who are hurt. And if I do that, I feel that my money is well-spent,
GEORGE SOROS Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states...
GEORGE SOROS It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French e...
GEORGE SOROS I think they got the facts wrong. There was no case of insider trading.
GEORGE SOROS We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. ...
GEORGE SOROS I think that it will lead to reforms and I am sure that the region will recover because it has treme...
GEORGE SOROS As the housing boom cools off, there will be a shortfall in demand (which will) affect the global ec...
GEORGE SOROS I'm very worried about the supply-demand balance, which is very tight.
GEORGE SOROS The conference is remarkable for its complacency -- it's a bit like dancing on the Titanic. They're ...
GEORGE SOROS You have the potential of a breakdown of the entire system if you have a slowdown of economic activi...
GEORGE SOROS Most of the capital (in Indonesia) is in the hands of limited business groups, which don't feel so s...
GEORGE SOROS I think I lost my touch some time ago. I'm like an aging boxer that should not go into the ring,
GEORGE SOROS This reorganization took place in the full glare of publicity and involved the departure of a large ...
GEORGE SOROS The market today is dominated by much younger people who have not experienced a bear market.
GEORGE SOROS The objective is to provide the best possible management for the assets of my family and foundations...
GEORGE SOROS This segment has considerable momentum and people are not ready to jump ship as long as prices are r...
GEORGE SOROS It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do n...
GEORGE SOROS As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example o...
GEORGE SOROS I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of...
GEORGE SOROS My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'...
GEORGE SOROS The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids...
GEORGE SOROS Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as ...
GEORGE SOROS Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong...
GEORGE SOROS It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you�...
GEORGE SOROS My principle is to survive first and make money afterward
GEORGE SOROS The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable
GEORGE SOROS The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
GEORGE SOROS I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the u...
GEORGE SOROS This would enable the authority to set a ceiling on the amounts it is willing to insure,
GEORGE SOROS I think the (Brazilian) government has done most of the things it promised to do on the fiscal front...
GEORGE SOROS but recently we have seen financial markets sometimes move more like a wrecking ball, knocking over ...
GEORGE SOROS No, because I've got the same courts that found me guilty in the first place.
GEORGE SOROS So I think what needs to happen is he needs to be removed from power,
GEORGE SOROS He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p...
GEORGE SOROS It sounds like a careful step, not a huge expansion
GEORGE SOROS It's a very, very troubling and troublesome development.
GEORGE SOROS I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what ...
GEORGE SOROS If you have the rule of law, then you're going to get investment in factories. You have to assure or...
GEORGE SOROS challenge the very concept of the 'war on terror.'
GEORGE SOROS This is unrelated to last week's events,
GEORGE SOROS Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes,
GEORGE SOROS There's (a) problem that I think is brewing, and that is the end of the housing boom in the United S...
GEORGE SOROS The markets are always on the side of exuberance or fear. It's fear and greed. Right now greed has t...
GEORGE SOROS I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so...
GEORGE SOROS I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foun...
GEORGE SOROS An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pur...
GEORGE SOROS My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work tha...
GEORGE SOROS When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote ...
GEORGE SOROS We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat u...
GEORGE SOROS At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.
GEORGE SOROS Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing...
GEORGE SOROS I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public...
GEORGE SOROS Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dol...
GEORGE SOROS The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.
GEORGE SOROS It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL