George Soros Quotes

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.

Predicting the market is always tough.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.

I never try to predict the market.

People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

Fundamentals make the market.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.