George Soros Quotes

• A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

  George Soros

  Topics in Democracy

• Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.

  George Soros

  Topics in Country, Society

  Tags in People, Foundations

• The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it’s possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

  George Soros

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Policies

• When it comes to social consequences, they’ve got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it’s a difficult task.

  George Soros

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Criteria

• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in International, Institutions, Democratic, Governments

• If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

  George Soros

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in People, World

• Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

  George Soros

  Topics in Power

  Tags in United States, Military

• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enforcement, Costs

• President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, President

• Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Repealing, Process, Alcohol, Prohibition

• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criminalization, United States

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Condition

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

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Markets, Uncertainty

• We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Nation, Earth

• An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

  An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

  George Soros

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Freedom

• We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

  George Soros

  Topics in Humanity, Leadership

  Tags in National Interest

• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Beneficiaries, Criminal, Organizations

• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  George Soros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public, Election

• I’m not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I’m doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  George Soros

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Philanthropic, Public Relations

George Soros (31)

Birth:	12th August, 1930
Nationality:	American, Hungarian
Profession:	Businessman, Investor, Philanthropist

About

George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is a well known supporter of American progressive and American liberal political causes. Between 1979 and 2015 he donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes. He is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations. In 1947, he immigrated to UK and became a student at the London School of Economics. In 1951, he earned a B.Sc. degree in philosophy and an M.Sc. degree in philosophy in 1954, both from the London School of Economics. In 1956, he moved to New York City, where he worked as an arbitrage trader for F.M. Mayer. He has written several books include: The Alchemy of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, George Soros on Globalization, The Bubble of American Supremacy, The Age of Fallibility, Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States, and The Tragedy of the European Union.

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