George Soros Quotes

"Up to those amounts the countries concerned would be able to access international capital markets at prime rates. Beyond these, the creditors would have to beware."
-George Soros

"This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the global capitalist system and it needs to be corrected."
-George Soros

"The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside."
-George Soros

"The markets are always on the side of exuberance or fear. It's fear and greed. Right now greed has the better of it, which is rather nice (for investors) as long as it doesn't get out of hand."
-George Soros

"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
-George Soros

"The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'"
-George Soros

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman."
-George Soros

"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
-George Soros