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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve Paperback – 4 Aug. 1995
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"The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work. . . As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."-George Soros from the Preface
Critical praise for Soros on Soros
"If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the opportunity. You will meet a complex man and a first-rate mind."-Henry A. Kissinger
"The best expert on Soros is undoubtedly George Soros! After all, who is better equipped to tell us what he really thinks and how he thinks, a matter of some importance given the fact that he has translated a remarkable personal financial success into a truly generous and historically significant effort to promote postcommunist democracy." -Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The best X-ray of the mind of the master yet." -Barton M. Biggs
"George Soros brings a lot more to the world of finance than the intuition and nerve of a born trader-and in Soros on Soros he's no longer bashful about telling us about it. A philosopher at heart, George attributes his success at investing to a theory of the interaction of reality and human perception. What really drives the man now, with a personal fortune beyond all personal need, is a different kind of strategic investing-investment to build in Eastern Europe the kind of open societies he came to value in his own life." -Paul A. Volcker
Financial guru George Soros is one of the most colorful and intriguing figures in the financial world today. Now in Soros on Soros, readers are given their most intimate and revealing look yet into the life and mind of the one BusinessWeek dubbed, "The Man Who Moves Markets."
Soros on Soros interweaves financial theory and personal reminiscence, political analysis and moral reflection to offer a compelling portrait of the world (and its markets) according to Soros. In an interview-style narrative with Byron Wien, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and with German journalist Krisztina Koenen, Soros vividly describes the genesis of his brilliant financial career and shares his views on investing and global finance, politics and the emerging world order, and the responsibility of power.
Speaking with remarkable candor, he traces his progress from Holocaust survivor to philosophy student, unsuccessful tobacco salesman to the world's most powerful and profitable trader and introduces us to the people and events that helped shape his character and his often controversial views.
In describing the investment theories and financial strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times), Soros tells the fascinating story of the phenomenally successful Soros Fund Management and its $12 billion flagship, Quantum Fund. He also offers fresh insights into some of his most sensational wins and losses, including a firsthand account of the $1 billion he made going up against the British pound and the fortune he lost speculating on the yen. Plus: Soros's take on the devaluation of the peso and currency fluctuations internationally.
He tells of the personal and professional crises that more than once threatened to destroy him and of the personal resources he drew upon to turn defeat into resounding victory. And he explains his motivations for establishing the Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute through which he worked to build open societies in postcommunist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Finally, turning his attention to international politics, Soros offers keen insights into the current state of affairs in Russia and the former communist bloc countries and analyzes the reasons behind and likely consequences of the West's failure to properly integrate them into the free world. He also explores the crisis of the ERM and analyzes the pros and cons of investing in a number of emerging markets.
Find out what makes one of the greatest financial wizards of this or any age tick. Soros on Soros is a must read for anyone interested in world finance and international policy.
- ISBN-109780471119777
- ISBN-13978-0471119777
- Edition1st
- PublisherWiley
- Publication date4 Aug. 1995
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.2 x 2.37 x 22.85 cm
- Print length338 pages
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"The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work. . . As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."-George Soros from the Preface
Critical praise for Soros on Soros
"If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the opportunity. You will meet a complex man and a first-rate mind."-Henry A. Kissinger
"The best expert on Soros is undoubtedly George Soros! After all, who is better equipped to tell us what he really thinks and how he thinks, a matter of some importance given the fact that he has translated a remarkable personal financial success into a truly generous and historically significant effort to promote postcommunist democracy." -Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The best X-ray of the mind of the master yet." -Barton M. Biggs
"George Soros brings a lot more to the world of finance than the intuition and nerve of a born trader-and in Soros on Soros he's no longer bashful about telling us about it. A philosopher at heart, George attributes his success at investing to a theory of the interaction of reality and human perception. What really drives the man now, with a personal fortune beyond all personal need, is a different kind of strategic investing-investment to build in Eastern Europe the kind of open societies he came to value in his own life." -Paul A. Volcker
Financial guru George Soros is one of the most colorful and intriguing figures in the financial world today. Now in Soros on Soros, readers are given their most intimate and revealing look yet into the life and mind of the one BusinessWeek dubbed, "The Man Who Moves Markets."
Soros on Soros interweaves financial theory and personal reminiscence, political analysis and moral reflection to offer a compelling portrait of the world (and its markets) according to Soros. In an interview-style narrative with Byron Wien, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and with German journalist Krisztina Koenen, Soros vividly describes the genesis of his brilliant financial career and shares his views on investing and global finance, politics and the emerging world order, and the responsibility of power.
Speaking with remarkable candor, he traces his progress from Holocaust survivor to philosophy student, unsuccessful tobacco salesman to the world's most powerful and profitable trader and introduces us to the people and events that helped shape his character and his often controversial views.
In describing the investment theories and financial strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times), Soros tells the fascinating story of the phenomenally successful Soros Fund Management and its $12 billion flagship, Quantum Fund. He also offers fresh insights into some of his most sensational wins and losses, including a firsthand account of the $1 billion he made going up against the British pound and the fortune he lost speculating on the yen. Plus: Soros's take on the devaluation of the peso and currency fluctuations internationally.
He tells of the personal and professional crises that more than once threatened to destroy him and of the personal resources he drew upon to turn defeat into resounding victory. And he explains his motivations for establishing the Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute through which he worked to build open societies in postcommunist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Finally, turning his attention to international politics, Soros offers keen insights into the current state of affairs in Russia and the former communist bloc countries and analyzes the reasons behind and likely consequences of the West's failure to properly integrate them into the free world. He also explores the crisis of the ERM and analyzes the pros and cons of investing in a number of emerging markets.
Find out what makes one of the greatest financial wizards of this or any age tick. Soros on Soros is a must read for anyone interested in world finance and international policy.
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"The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work. . . As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."-George Soros from the Preface
Critical praise for Soros on Soros
"If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the opportunity. You will meet a complex man and a first-rate mind."-Henry A. Kissinger
"The best expert on Soros is undoubtedly George Soros! After all, who is better equipped to tell us what he really thinks and how he thinks, a matter of some importance given the fact that he has translated a remarkable personal financial success into a truly generous and historically significant effort to promote postcommunist democracy." -Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The best X-ray of the mind of the master yet." -Barton M. Biggs
"George Soros brings a lot more to the world of finance than the intuition and nerve of a born trader-and in Soros on Soros he's no longer bashful about telling us about it. A philosopher at heart, George attributes his success at investing to a theory of the interaction of reality and human perception. What really drives the man now, with a personal fortune beyond all personal need, is a different kind of strategic investing-investment to build in Eastern Europe the kind of open societies he came to value in his own life." -Paul A. Volcker
Financial guru George Soros is one of the most colorful and intriguing figures in the financial world today. Now in Soros on Soros, readers are given their most intimate and revealing look yet into the life and mind of the one BusinessWeek dubbed, "The Man Who Moves Markets."
Soros on Soros interweaves financial theory and personal reminiscence, political analysis and moral reflection to offer a compelling portrait of the world (and its markets) according to Soros. In an interview-style narrative with Byron Wien, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and with German journalist Krisztina Koenen, Soros vividly describes the genesis of his brilliant financial career and shares his views on investing and global finance, politics and the emerging world order, and the responsibility of power.
Speaking with remarkable candor, he traces his progress from Holocaust survivor to philosophy student, unsuccessful tobacco salesman to the world's most powerful and profitable trader and introduces us to the people and events that helped shape his character and his often controversial views.
In describing the investment theories and financial strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times), Soros tells the fascinating story of the phenomenally successful Soros Fund Management and its $12 billion flagship, Quantum Fund. He also offers fresh insights into some of his most sensational wins and losses, including a firsthand account of the $1 billion he made going up against the British pound and the fortune he lost speculating on the yen. Plus: Soros's take on the devaluation of the peso and currency fluctuations internationally.
He tells of the personal and professional crises that more than once threatened to destroy him and of the personal resources he drew upon to turn defeat into resounding victory. And he explains his motivations for establishing the Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute through which he worked to build open societies in postcommunist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Finally, turning his attention to international politics, Soros offers keen insights into the current state of affairs in Russia and the former communist bloc countries and analyzes the reasons behind and likely consequences of the West's failure to properly integrate them into the free world. He also explores the crisis of the ERM and analyzes the pros and cons of investing in a number of emerging markets.
Find out what makes one of the greatest financial wizards of this or any age tick. Soros on Soros is a must read for anyone interested in world finance and international policy.
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- ASIN : 0471119776
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (4 Aug. 1995)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 338 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780471119777
- ISBN-13 : 978-0471119777
- Dimensions : 15.2 x 2.37 x 22.85 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 302,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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George Soros is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the founder the Open Societies Institute, a global network of foundations dedicated to supporting open societies. He is the author of several best-selling books including The New Paradigm for Financial Markets/The Crash of 2008 and What It Means, The Bubble of American Supremacy and The Age of Fallibility. He was born in Budapest and lives in New York City.
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Unless George Soros is a brilliant actor I would say that he has been 100% open in his responses to the many questions put to him; although I would add that if the journalist had not been so perplexed by many of his responses it might have been interesting to push him on one or two points. Now, having said that, even as a person who for all of his life has been obsessed with such things as the origin of consciousness, the fallacy of time, to the point whereby I would analyse the analyses of the analyses, I would have to say that one needs to concentrate when reading Mr. Soros' views on his life's work; which is what he felt the book constituted.
He skilfully introduces so many permutations on each theme that at times it is difficult to keep one's place mentally as to what point he is striving to make. He certainly understands the markets much better than he understands himself; he openly acknowledges the contradictions and fallibility of both his reasoning and mental constructs.
When I think of my impression of him after reading the book I find myself feeling how strange it is for someone to be both a philosopher and speculator in equal value.
Although it was not his intention to be the man who 'broke the bank of England', as the newspapers termed him, he does acknowledge that such an epithet raised his public profile and ultimately gave him access to high ranking persons in public places who previously had, or would, shun him or his advice.
What has been his intention is to promulgate the concept of an 'Open Society'. He founded and financially supports approximately 100 Open Society Foundations throughout the world. Although he leaves much of the strategies of those foundations to others, he nonetheless gives life to its fundamental purpose which is to oppose 'Closed Societies'.
Some countries consider him a threat to public order; and it is on this point that I found myself being a little disappointed with George Soros, a man whose intellect impresses me enormously. Bearing in mind that the book was first published some 20 years ago, he ascribes one country's resistance to him and his ideologies to anti-Semitism in the most abstract way without any specifics rendered at all.
When I think of summing up Mr. Soros' interest in Open Societies my mind subconsciously brings up the start of a film where the actress Honour Blackman and others are looking down as Gods through the clouds at the human beings below – as if in a sort of game whereby humans can be viewed as toys to the Gods.
The second section, average, is about being a philanthropist and would be nice to read if I was from Eatern Europe.
Third/Forth sections read like a university thesis. Poorly written (not written by Soros) and not a concise impression of his thoughts on the open society. If Soros really wants to put his point across he really needs to write a much longer book, with much more detail, unless read by people well versed in philosophy, politics, socio-economics, finance and a bit of quantum physics for fun!
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Assuming the books is actually a series of transcribe interviews, he comes across as extremely knowledgeable and self aware. His opinions on the Yugoslav/Balkans mess are accurate and insightful. Some might argue that he is soft on Gorbachev, but his disdain for the Soviet dictatorship is clear.
I was also very interested in how he dealt with his Jewish identity. "I am proud of being a Jew--although I must admit it took me practically a lifetime to get there. I have suffered from the low self-esteem that is the bane of the assimilation Jew." He states that if there is anything of Jewish genius inn him, it is his ability to think critically. ON Israel he maintains an air of neutrality, but was hopeful for Israel as an "open society" at the time of publication (before the assassination of Rabin.)
I the section on philosophy, Soros paints himself as an abstract thinker and philosopher. He states without embarrassment that he has more money than he could ever need and hence his desire to use it for a greater purpose. All of his philanthropy is through his foundation because if he made exceptions, the "list would be endless."
I recommend the book for the thoughtful reader who is willing to come to his own conclusions on one of the more controversial private figures of this generation.
The test of a book like this is whether or not I change my investing after reading it. My answer is: a little.
I think the problem for me with the book is that George is "a citizen of the world" and really knows countries. He's lived in several countries, visited many others, and knows foreign leaders. He invests by betting on countries and currencies that he determines are 'unstable'. HE can do that. I can't! I don't know South America, China, Russia, etc. I have not been there. I don't know if their leaders are good or not.
After reading this book, I'm no better qualified to determine if I should buy Apple stock or not. Will the dollar keep falling? Does that mean gold will continue its historic rise? This book gives me no insight. I'm sure if I spoke with George, he could answer my questions in one minute, but there is no toll free number in the book lol.
Nevertheless, it's a good look into how he thinks. His investing strategy is tied in with his personal psychological state. He mentions several times that he doesn't trust himself completely. He says he is aware that his decisions are based on imperfect market knowledge and personal biases. But I think he sells himself short. Even on one of his bad days, he will make better decisions than me on my best days.
Hey, George... should i buy gold in 2020? i bought your book, but you didn't tell me! lol