George Soros

George Soros
George Sorosis a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 August 1930
CityBudapest, Hungary
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge...
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.
The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.