I've learned many things from George Soros, but perhaps the most significant is that it's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
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Stanley Druckenmiller
Born in 1953 in Pittsburgh, Stanley Druckenmiller founded Duquesne Capital in 1981 and served as lead portfolio manager for George Soros's Quantum Fund from 1988 to 2000. He was the architect of the 1992 pound-crisis trade that forced the Bank of England out of the ERM. Widely reported to have never posted an annual loss in thirty years, he is among the most consistently successful macro investors in history.
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The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.
I think the stock market is going to be the key barometer for monetary policy going forward, and I think earnings are going to be the key.
Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.
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Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.
-- Stanley Druckenmiller
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
-- George Soros
To succeed in the market, as in blackjack, you need an edge, you need to know how to size your bets, and you need the discipline to stick with the system.
-- Edward O. Thorp