George Soros Quotes

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Speculation, in its broadest sense, is not an evil in itself, but the contrary, and relieves public distress far oftener than it creates it.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.

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.

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

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

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.