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It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money.

— George Soros Interview with Mark Shapiro (2000)

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

Equilibrium itself has rarely been observed in real life — market prices have a notorious habit of fluctuating.

The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the mind of the Market (1987)

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros (2006)

I consider Xi Jinping the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.

The development of a global economy has not been matched by the development of a global society.

The Crisis of Global Capitalism (1998)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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