George Soros Quotes

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

I know where I'm putting my money.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

I've learned that all investments have risk.