The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy. - George Soros

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

My peculiarity is that I don't have a particular style of investing or, more exactly, I try to change my style to fit the conditions.

How good are markets in predicting real-world developments? Reading the record, it is striking how many calamities that I anticipated did not in fact materialise.

Financial markets constantly anticipate events, both on the positive and on the negative side, which fail to materialise exactly because they have been anticipated.

It is an old joke that the stock market has predicted seven of the last two recessions. Markets are often wrong.