Quotes from George Soros

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

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

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

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

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

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

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.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

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

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.