George Soros is a renowned Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. He was very good at studies since childhood and pursued his graduation from the ‘London School of Economics’. There he met the renowned philosopher Karl Popper and was deeply influenced by his works. After completing his graduation he landed up a job with an arbitrage trader and further became a financial analyst at ‘Wertheim & Co.’. His high intellect helped him become the Vice President of 'Arnhold and S Bleichroeder’. There he served for the next ten years but was unsatisfied by working for others. This compelled him to co-found the investment company ‘Quantum Group of Funds’. This company had been very successful and brought huge fortunes for Soros. He also launched the ‘Open Society Foundations’ which aims at helping people struck by disasters. It has enlarged his network to 37 countries and has worked significantly to help the needy. Soros has also been in the limelight for various wrong reasons like making a heavy profit of $1 Billion from the infamous currency crisis called ‘Black Wednesday’. He remains a prominent giant of the economic world as well as a great philanthropist. He is an ispiration to millions all over the world. His thoughts, views and beliefs are a great source of some really inspiring quotes. Go through the motivating and notable quotations and sayings by George Soros.
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
George Soros
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
George Soros
Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)
At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.
George Soros
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.
