George Soros Financial Quotations

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he puts himself in a position where he can bail out his cronies who are in financial difficulties, including his son and so on,

but recently we have seen financial markets sometimes move more like a wrecking ball, knocking over one economy after another.

Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.