George Soros Quotes

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.

When it comes to our perceptions, one is an event, two is a pattern, three is a trend, and four is fact.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction, and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing.

I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.

In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.

Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready to move in the direction of that expansion.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Trend is not destiny.

People are storytelling creatures. We like stories that go somewhere, and therefore we like trends - because trends are things that either get better or get worse, so we can either rejoice or lament. But we mistakenly depict many things as trends moving in some direction. We take the "full house" of variation in a system and try to represent it as a single number, when in fact what we should be doing is studying the variation as it expands and contracts. If you look at the history of the variation in all its complexity, then you see there's no trend.

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.