George Soros

Hungary
Born on 12 Aug 1930
Businessman

My critique of the global capitalist system has three major themes. First, the system favors financial capital but financial markets are inherently unstable and global markets even more so. Second, the excessive reliance on market values and their penetration into areas where they do not properly belong has undermined the stability of our society. Third, we cannot have a global economy without a global society.

'The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered' (1998)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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