Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. — George Soros

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. — George Soros

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

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. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. — George Soros

The reality is that financial markets are self–destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium. — George Soros

I think there’s a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they’re not sufficient because markets don’t look after social needs. — George Soros

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

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. — George Soros

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. — George Soros

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. — George Soros

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner. — George Soros

The world order needs a major overhaul. — George Soros

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to. — George Soros

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

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. — George Soros

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

Life is beautiful and full of variety and adventure. But luck must be on your side. — Tivadar Soros

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don’t exactly see what is going to reverse it. — George Soros

Brexit would make some people very rich–but most voters considerably poorer. — George Soros

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. — George Soros

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world. — George Soros

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

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility). — George Soros

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros