George Soros Quotes

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

The word to regulate implies in its nature full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily, the action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing.

All bureaucracies have to be weeded and watched.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I can't be left unsupervised.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law, is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful.

The World is governed too much.

There is a fine line between constructive oversight and unconstructive meddling.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Who watches the watchmen?

Trust is fine, but control is better.

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

California always struck me as a police state.